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CATALOGUE 

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MEMORIAL HALL, 

DEERFIELD, MASS., U. S. A. 

GATHERED AND PRESERVED BY THE 

POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL 
ASSOCIATION. 



SECOND EDITION. 




DEERFIELD: 

PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION. 

1908. 




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CATALOGUE 

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COLLECTION OF RELICS 



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MEMORIAL HALL, 

DEERFIELD, MASS., U. S. A. 

GATHERED AND PRESERVED BY THE 

POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL 
ASSOCIATION, 






SECOND EDITION. 




DEERFIELD: 
PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION. 

1908. 










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NOTE TO VISITORS 

In viewing the Collection of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial 
Association this fact should be borne in mind. It is not a sci- 
entific exhibition, or an art museum. Not a single article is here 
preserved on account of its artistic qualities. The Collection is 
founded on purely historical lines, and is the direct memorial of 
the inhabitants of this valley, both Indian and Puritan. No 
system of carefully graded classification is practicable, nor is it 
desirable. Many articles may seem trivial in themselves, but as 
a part of the whole broad scheme of the projectors the most 
humble belong here as much as the most notable. All have been 
the free donation of the people themselves, and it is a tribute to 
them, as well as to the guardian spirit of the Association. The 
simple descriptive lines refer to persons who have lived and died, 
mostly in private life in this vicinity, whose memorials should be 
inspected reverently, and not in a spirit of criticism. The Po- 
cumtuck Valley Memorial Association is essentially "of the 
people, by the people, and for the people." 



INTRODUCTION 

Several years ago the congested condition of our Collection 
forced an expansion. The rearrangement of our material ren- 
dered the old catalogue more a hindrance than a help to visitors. 
A new edition became an imperative necessity. Only after years 
of hard labor, which has been wholly a labor of love, the work 
has been completed. 

In the execution of this work something more than a mere 
directory to the visitor has been attempted. The descriptive 
and historical notes have been made with reference to a some- 
what wider circulation. 

Public acknowledgment is due to those whose contributions 
of articles to our Collection have made our scheme a success. 
The utmost care has been taken to give the correct name and 
residence of the donors. If a few omissions be found in giving 
them due credit, or if a notice be lacking of some of the exhibits 
it can be fairly chargeable to the crumbling paper, fading ink 
and treacherous paste of modern date. 

George Sheldon, Curator. 

Deerfield, March 12, 1908. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 

PocuMTucK Valley Memorial Association ... 6 

Constitution ......... 6 

First Board of Officers 8 

Memorial Hall 9 

Life Councillors ........ 10 

Life Members ........ 10 

Officers for 1908 11 

Explanatory Note 13 

Vestibule 15 

Indian Room 17 

Kitchen 40 

Memorial Room 56 

Domestic Room 69 

Library 73 

Main Hall 84 

Needlework Room 133 

Anteroom ......... 137 

Bed Room 138 

Newton Room 140 

Military Room 141 

Council Room 148 

Fort 150 



POCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL 
ASSOCIATION 

April 18, 1870, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association 
was incorporated by an Act of the Massachusetts Legislature, 
and "George Sheldon, Robert Crawford, Nathaniel Hitchcock, 
Luke Wright and Samuel F. Wells,* their associates and suc- 
cessors," were made a corporation. Under this Act an organi- 
zation was effected May 26, 1870, and the following Constitution 
was adopted. 

CONSTITUTION 

Article 1. — The objects of this Association shall be the col- 
lecting and preserving such memorials, books, papers and curi- 
osities, as may tend to illustrate and perpetuate the history of 
the early settlers of this region, and of the race which vanished 
before them; and the erection of a memorial hall in which such 
collections can be securely deposited. 

Art. 2. — The officers of this Association shall be a President, 
two Vice Presidents, Recording and Corresponding Secretaries 
and a Treasurer, who, with seven others to be elected, shall con- 
stitute a Council of thirteen, f The President, and in his absence 
one of the Vice Presidents, shall preside at all meetings of the 
Association and the Council. The Recording Secretary shall 
keep a true record of the doings of the Association and the Coun- 
cil, and a list of all the members of the Association with date of 
admission. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the 
correspondence of the Association, and keep on file all letters 
received and copies of all letters sent. The Treasurer shall give 
such surety for the faithful performance of his duties as the 

* Trustees of the Old Indian House Door. 

t By an amendment the Council was afterward enlarged to twenty-one. 



CONSTITUTION 



Council shall require; he shall collect all dues, and receive and 
pay out all money belonging to the Association under the di- 
rection of the Finance Committee, without whose order no 
money shall be invested or paid from the treasury. He shall 
report at the annual meeting in detail, the receipts and expendi- 
tures of the preceding year; and shall keep the books always 
open to the inspection of any member. He shall keep a list of 
the members of the Association, with date of all payments made 
as fees for membership. 

The Council, seven members of which shall constitute a quo- 
rum, shall have the general management ,of the affairs of the 
Association; shall appoint annually a Finance Committee of 
three, who shall be members of their own body, a Curator, and 
such sub-committees as may be necessary. 

Art. 3. — The annual meeting of the Association shall be on 
the last Tuesday of February, when all officers shall be chosen 
by ballot, and a majority of ballots shall be necessary to elect. 
The annual meeting of the Council shall be on the same day. 

Art. 4. — Any person may become and continue a member of 
this Association by the payment of three dollars, and an annual 
tax of one dollar. Any person may become a life member, and 
be entitled to a certificate of membership, on the payment of 
twenty-five dollars. Any person may become a life Councillor 
by a vote of the Association, on the payment of one hundred 
dollars, and shall be entitled to a certificate of membership. 
The first annual tax shall be due March 1, 1871. Any member 
may withdraw from the Association by paying all dues, and 
giving a written notice to the Secretary. 

Art. 5. — The Association shall incur no debts beyond the 
amount of money in the treasury; nor shall any member be 
subject to any taxation by the Association beyond the dues as 
before mentioned. 

Art. 6. — The Curator shall have charge of all books, papers 
and curiosities of the Association, and shall record in a book 
kept for that purpose a full list of the articles in his possession, 
with the name of the donor when such articles are presented. 

Art. 7. — The stated meetings of the Association and Coun- 
cil shall be called by the President, who shall give notice through 
some newspaper published in the county, of the time and place 



8 CONSTITUTION 

of holding the same, seven days before the time appointed. 
Articles shall be inserted in said call on the written application 
of three members. He shall in like manner, call occasional 
meetings of the Council upon the application of three members, 
and of the Association, upon the application of seven members, 
said application being in writing, stating the object for which 
such meeting is called. 

Art, 8. — This Constitution may be altered or amended by 
the Association at any annual meeting, upon a vote of two- 
thirds of the members present and voting, notice of said pro- 
posed change having been given in the call of said meeting. 

Under this Constitution these officers were elected, May 26, 
1870. 

President, HON. GEORGE SHELDON of Deerfield. 

1st Vice President, JOSIAH DEAN CANNING of Gill. 

M Vice President, JAMES MONROE CRAFTS of Whately. 

Recording Secretary, DEA. NATHANIEL HITCHCOCK of Deerfield. 

Corresponding Secretarij, REV. ROBERT CRAWFORD, D. D. of Deerfield. 

Treasurer, DEA. NATHANIEL HITCHCOCK of Deerfield. 

Councillors 

Rev. Peter Voorhees Finch, Greenfield, Moses Stebbins, South Deerfield, 
D. Orlando Fisk, Shelburne, Roswell Field, Gill, 

Jonathan Johnson, Montague, Rev. Edgar Buckingham, Deerfield, 

Levi W. Rice, Greenfield. 

Thus the plan entertained for many years, and considered 
almost hopeless of execution, became a settled and an active 
purpose, chartered by the State, inviting and soon receiving 
public confidence. How well the spirit and the letter of the 
charter have been carried out the work accomplished bj^ this 
Association best tells. 

First in importance, was the acquisition of an eminently 
suitable building — itself of historic interest — in which to gather 
and preserve the rare and extensive collection of antiquities 
already looming into view. 



MEMORIAL HALL 

This structure was erected in 1798, by the Corporation of 
Deerfield Academy, which was chartered by the Legislature 
under an Act approved by Gov. Samuel Adams, March 21, 1797. 

The Academy was conducted with success for three-quarters 
of a century, spreading its influence far and wide, and numbering 
among its preceptors and pupils men and women of learning 
and talent. 

In 1875 its fund was merged with the legacy of Mrs. Esther 
Dickinson to found the Deerfield Academy and Dickinson High 
School. 

In 1878 this building was secured by this Association, and 
after repairs in which the unity of the old building was preserved 
with care, it was re-dedicated as Memorial Hall, September 8, 
1880. Addresses were made by eminent men, including George 
William Curtis, Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Dudley Warner, 
Robert Roberts Bishop and others. 

In this Hall we now have on exhibition a collection illustrat- 
ing early New England life, which, we believe, is unequalled by 
any other in the country. 

The Association has here placed Mural Tablets to the memory 
of the sufferers of February 29, 1704, and others to keep ever 
in mind the pioneers of the Valley. It has reared an indestructi- 
ble memorial on the spot where Eunice Williams sank under the 
savage blow. Through its inspiration monuments have been 
placed on man}^ historic spots, and Field Meetings have been 
held for their dedication. It has published four volumes of 
original matter. It has created a dignified and sympathetic 
public sentiment, and formed a nucleus for the constantly grow- 
ing antiquarian spirit of the Valley. It has established itself 
firmly in the hearts of the people, and in its wake have sprung 
up Town Histories and Historical Societies by the score. 

The following lists will show how widespread is the interest 
in the work of the Association. 



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LIFE MEMBERS 



LIFE COUNCILLORS 



Henry Childs, Buffalo, N. Y., 1870. 
Lydia Cutler Stebbins, 

Deerfield, 1872. 
C. Alice Baker, Cambridge, 1876. 
Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield, 1878. 
George Albert Arms, Greenfield, 1882. 
George Sheldon, Deerfield, 1883. 
Mary Ann Sawyer, 

St. Albans, Vt., 1883. 



Mary Hemenway, Boston, 1885. 
Frederick Lothrop Ames, 

Boston, 1892. 
Jennie Arms Sheldon, Deerfield, 1901. 
Elizabeth Marvin Kauffmann, 

Berlin, Prussia, 1903. 
Ellen Louisa Sheldon, 

Greenfield, 1905. 



LIFE MEMBERS 



Catherine Elizabeth Allen, 

Deerfield, 1874. 
George Albert Arms, Greenfield, 1870. 
Jennie Maria Arms, 1889. 
Otis Bardwell Arms, 

Bellows Falls, Vt., 1882. 
Seneca Arms, Troy, N. Y., 1871. 
Walter Titus Avery, New York, 1871. 
C. Alice Baker, Cambridge, 1870. 
Catherine Catlin Baker, 1872. 
George Potter Barrett, 

Portland, Me., 1893. 
George Bradford Bartlett, 

Concord, 1871. 
Robert Roberts Bishop, 

Newton, 1890. 
George Catlin, Chicago, 111., 1899. 
James Wells Champney, 

Deerfield, 1879. 
Ellen Chase, Brookline, 1890. 
Alfred Henry Childs, Deerfield, 1870. 
Robert Childs, Deerfield, 1870. 
Rodolphus Childs, Dover, 111., 1873. 
Cornelia Carter Comstock, 

New Canaan, Conn., 1886. 
Charles Corse, 

Lock Haven, Pa., 1887. 
Noah Cressey, Amherst, 1870. 
Elizabeth Reed Delano, 

New Bedford, 1882. 
George N. Doggett, Chicago, 1872. 



Bernard Neal Farren, 

Montague, 1884. 
Franklin Goodridge Fessenden, 

Greenfield, 1895. 
Eliza Barnard Fithian, 

St. Louis, Mo., 1884. 
Agnes Gordon Fuller, Deerfield, 1905. 
Caroline Calista Furbush, 

Greenfield, 1895. 
Belle Sheldon Hawks, Deerfield, 1880. 
Frederick Hawks, Greenfield, 1879. 
William Halsted Hawks, 

Greenfield, 1879. 
Emerine Amidon Henry, 

Deerfield, 1906. 
Henry Hitchcock, 

Galesburg, 111., 1872. 
Nathaniel Hitchcock, Deerfield, 1870. 
George W. Horr, Athol, 1893. 
James Kendall Hosmer, 

Minneapolis, Minn., 1871. 
Catherine Wells Hoyt, 

Deerfield, 1876. 
Henry Hoyt, Boston, 1870. 
John Wilson Hoyt, 

Cincinnati, O., 1887. 
William Hyde, Ware, 1884. 
Delancy C. Kimball, Leverett, 1877. 
Samuel Orson Lamb, Greenfield, 1880. 
John Hooker Leavitt, 

Waterloo, Iowa, 1903. 



LIFE MEMBERS 



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Luther Joshua Barker Lincoln, 

Deerfield, 1879. 
Mary Agnes Lincoln, Deerfield, 1879. 
James Fowle Baldwin Marshall, 

New York, 1888. 
Levi Parsons Morton, 

;_Nevv York, 1903. 
Henry Moses Phillips, 

Springfield, 1882. 
Smith Robinson Phillips, 

Springfield, 1871. 
Franklin Josiah Pratt, 

Greenfield, 1880. 
Martha Goulding Pratt, 

Deerfield, 1872. 
James Smith Reed, Marion, O., 1872. 
John J. Richardson, Greenfield, 1879. 
John Edwards Russell, 

Leicester, 1897. 
Mary Ann Sawyer, 

St. Albans, Vt., 1879. 
Ellen Louisa Sheldon, 

Greenfield, 1880. 
George Sheldon, Deerfield, 1870. 
George Arms Sheldon, 

Greenfield, 1900. 
Jennie Edith Sheldon, 

Greenfield, 1900. 
John Sheldon, Greenfield, 1880. 
Susan Stewart Sheldon, 

Deerfield, 1870. 



Cornelia Allen Smith, 

Phila., Pa., 1892. 
James Smith, Whately, 1879. 
Newell Snow, Greenfield, 1879. 
Evander Graves Stebbins, 

Deerfield, 1870. 
Mary Lowell Stone, Cambridge, 1888. 
Henry Walbridge Taft, 

Pittsfield, 1873. 
Francis McGee Thompson, 

Greenfield, 1882. 
Rufus Shepard Thornton, 

Montague, 1896. 
Charles Herbert Watson, 

Boston, 1900. 
Henry Wells, Shelburne, 1880. 
Joseph White, Williamstown, 1880. 
Salome Elizabeth White, 

New York, N. Y., 1880. 
James Scolly Whitney, 

Brookline, 1872. 
Laurinda Collins Whitney, 

Brookline, 1872. 
Almon Chapman Williams, 

Deerfield, 1886. 
Sophronia Reed Williams, 

Chicago, III., 1882. 
William Westwood Wright, 

Geneva, N. Y., 1880. 
Catherine Brooks Yale, 

Deerfield, 1888. 



OFFICERS FOR 1908 



President, HON. GEORGE SHELDON of Deerfield. 

1st Vice President, HON. FRANCIS McGEE THOMPSON of Greenfield. ^ 

Snd Vice President HON. SAMUEL ORSON LAMB of Greenfield. ^^-^^^ ^ ' ' 
Recording Secretary, REV. RICHARD ELLIOTT BIRKS of Deerfield. 
Corresponding Secretary, MRS. MARY ELIZABETH STEBBINS of Deer- 
field. 
Treasurer, JOHN SHELDON 'of Greenfield. 



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COUNCILLORS 



COUNCILLORS 



Miss C. Alice Baker, Deerfield. 
George Spencer Fuller, 
Edward Allen Hawks, 
William Lombard Harris, 
Julia Draper Whiting, 
Philomela Arms Williams, 
Edward James Everett, 
William Hyslop Abercrombie, 

Brookline. 



Hon. John Adams Aiken, Greenfield. 
Hon. Franklin Goodridge Fessenden, 
Greenfield . 
Eugene Adelbert Newcomb, 
George Arms Sheldon, 
Hon. Herbert Collins Parsons, 
Albert Lilley Wing, 
Mrs. Caroline Williams Putnam, 

Grand Rapids, Mich. 



EXPLANATORY NOTE 

When arranging the articles in this Collection it was found 
expedient to identify each with the room in which it was to be 
deposited. To this end the initials of each room are prefixed to 
the number of the article on every label, thus: In the Indian 
Room, IR20; Main Hall, MH20, &c. 

In several rooms are cases marked A, B, C, and so on. Each 
case has a separate series of numbers, and each label bears its 
proper letter and number. 

Articles marked * are a few scattered remnants of the Academy 
Museum established in 1799 which came to us with the building. 

Where no residence is given with the name of the donor, 
Deerfield is understood. 



CATALOGUE 



Doorsteps. Red Sandstone. From a quarry in Wisdom, one mile due 
northwest. 

On the right is an Indian Mortar, slightly damaged by fire, found by 
George Sheldon in Whately. On the left is the first Millstone in 
Deerfield, showing the wear and tear of service. It was quarried 
from Mt. Tom and sold to the town in 1693 by Maj. John Pyn- 
chon of Springfield. It was set up at Mill river. 

Given by Charles Phelps. 

VESTIBULE 

1. Old Pocumtuck Cannon. See " Proceedings, P. V. M. A.," Vol. I, 

p. 28, for its interesting story. It was probably one of a pair 
brought to Deerfield when Gov. Jonathan Belcher and Council held 
a Conference with several Indian tribes here in 1735. 

Town of Deerfield. 

2. Ramrod. Used the last time the cannon was loaded. The charge 

exploded accidentally, in consequence of which several persons 
were mutilated for life John H. Stebbins. 

3. .iEgis. Unknown origin. Formerly hung in the dancing hall of the 

Seth Nims Tavern Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

5. Old Hall Clock. Used for generations in the family of Rev. Dr. 

Samuel Willard, father of the donor Samuel Willard. 

6. Unique Bracket Candlestick. Made and used by John Partridge 

Bull for bench work in his armory in Deerfield, about 1750. It 
combines qualities of the student lamp and the gas bracket. 
From his great-grandson Dr. George Bull, Shelburne. 

8. Chair. Old Spanish style. Owned by John Amsden, 1721-94. From 

the house at the Bars, built in 1739 by Samuel Allen, who was 
killed by Indians, 1746, and occupied in his later years by George 
Fuller, as a studio Joseph N. Fuller. 

9. Head of Rocky Mountain Sheep. Found in 1884, by the donor, a 

Deerfield boy, in a canyon 250 feet deep in the "Bad Lands" of 
Montana. Measurements: From tip to tip, 15^ inches. Round the 
biggest part of one horn, 20 inches. Round head, under horns, 
21^ inches Samuel E. Thayer, Westfield. 



16 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

10. Halberd. Found at Indian Lake, near Lake George, in the track of 

the French and Indian Wars William H. Fuller, Whately. 

11. Spontoon. Carried on Training Days at Shelburne by Capt. Joel 

Nims of the militia Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

12. Spontoon. Carried by Ensign Lucius Graves in 1804. 

Charles R. Graves, Whately. 

13. Spontoon Mrs. Derixa Nims. 

14. Moose Horns Rufus Howland, Greenfield. 

16. Pictured Handkerchief. Of the Harrison Campaign, 1840. Battle of 

Tippecanoe Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing, Brattleboro, Vt. 

17. Desk. Used by Col. John Wilson, father of the donor. 

Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 



INDIAN ROOM ' 

1. The "Old Indian House" Door is by far the most reahstic 
relic of the strenuous life of our ancestors in the Museum, and 
probably in New England. The jagged hole in its face is a 
tangible exhibit of savagery and civilization in contact, not 
elsewhere seen. 

The Old Indian House escaped the. conflagration when the 
town was sacked by the French and Indians, February 29, 1704; 
it was taken down in 1849. The Door fell into the hands of 
David S. Hoyt, by whose heirs it was sold to Dr. Daniel Denison 
Slade of Chestnut Hill, Boston. At the solicitation of Deer- 
field citizens, he relinquished the prize, and was present at the 
celebration of its return, March 2, 1868. The old Door was then 
placed in the hands of a self-perpetuating board of five Trustees 
(who must always be residents of Deerfield Street). It was in- 
closed in a glass case, and was hung in the hall of the Pocumtuck 
Hotel. This was the first article taken out when that building 
was burned in 1879. The Door was finally transferred to this 
Association by the Trustees of the Old Indian House Door. 

The ornamental moulding fastened to the ceiling above was 
taken from the east pediment of the Old House. 

2. Horseshoe. Hung as a talisman over the inner casing of the front 

door of the Old Indian House, when it was built. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

3. Original Door Posts. From the front door of the Old Indian House. 

Same. 

4. Extract from a poem by Josiah D. Canning at the celebration of the 

return of the Door, Mar. 2, 1868. .Smith R. Phillips, Springfield. 

5. Picture of the Old Indian House Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

^ In the early days of our Association hundreds of articles were picked 
up by the curator and dumped here, and other hundreds by other people, 
of which no record was ever made. 



18 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

6. Wooden Brackets. Which supported an upper projecting story of 

the Old Indian House Same. 

7. Stone Hatchet. Commonly called Tomahawk. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

8. Framed Portrait of Hertel de Rouville. The leader of the French 

and Indians in the attack on Deerfield in 1704. 

Justin Winsor, Cambridge. 

9. Barrel of an Old Musket. Washed out at Smead's Island, in the 

Connecticut river, during the great flood of 1869, about a mile be- 
low the Turners Falls Battlefield Charles D. Lyons, Greenfield. 

10. Dutch Trade Axe. Made in Utrecht, Holland, for trade, by the set- 

tlers at Albany, with the Canada Indians. It was fished up from 
the bed of Deerfield river, 1879, on the line of the retreat of the 
enemy from the town. Several of this type are found on or near the 
donor's farm in Wisdom, where the Indians camped the night be- 
fore the attack, Feb. 29, 1704 Lucius B. Wise. 

11. Birch Bark Powder Magazine. Used by Col. John Hawks, 1704-86. 

William Guinan, Greenfield. 

12. Powder Horn. Many years in family use George Sheldon. 

13. Charger Same. 

14. Powder Horn Same. 

15. Carbine Barrel. Dug up on Smead's Island by donor in 1874. 

Master George B. Parks. 

16. Stone Hatchet. Similar to No. 7 Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

17. Photograph of Pistol. W^ith which Rev. John Williams attempted 

to shoot the Macqua Indian, Feb. 29, 1704. 

Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith, Greenfield. 

18. Catch. From a wooden doorlatch in the Old Indian House. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

18|. Old Pocket Book. Carried through the French and Indian War by 

Maj. John Burk Mrs. E. L. Burk, Bernardston. 

19. Powder Horn. Carv^ed with various emblems, and inscribed "The 

property of Solomon Searle, may it always be kept in memory of 
Elisha Searle and the 'Deerfield Battle.' " It was carried by Eben 
Searle in the Meadow Fight, Feb. 29, 1704, and later by Elisha 
Searle, the captive of 1723. Solomon Searle carried it at the Bat- 
tle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777, and by him it was left with 
Charles White of Bennington, and later of Hoosick, from whom it 
was obtained by the donor Hart Phillips, Hoosick, N. Y. 

20. The Bullet which killed Hannah Sheldon, Feb. 29, 1704. "The In- 

dians chopped a hole through the door and firing through it killed 
Mrs. Sheldon, just rising from her bed in an adjoining room." 

(Hoyt's " Indian Wars.") Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

20^. Framed Photograph of Dr. Daniel Denison Slade, who procured 
the Old Indian House Door and restored it to Deerfield. 

Mrs. Daniel D. Slade, Boston. 

21. Oak Chest which escaped the conflagration of 1704 in the house 



INDIAN ROOM 19 

of David Hoyt. It came down through Mary Hoyt, who married 

Judah Wright Mrs. Mary (W^right) Davis, Somers, Conn. 

21^. Bottom of a large Brass Kettle. Melted down in the fire of the 
Hoyt house, Feb. 29, 1704. (See southeast corner of room.) 

Luke Wright. 

Nos. 22-28 are relics taken in 1871 from an Indian grave in the 

home lot of George Sheldon George Sheldon. 

22. Rare Piece of New England Clay PotterJ^ 

23. Large Earthen Beads. 

24. Shell Discs. 

25. Shell Ornaments. 

26. Wampum. ■ 

27. Bone Implement. 

28. Beads. 

29. Amulet from an Indian Child's Grave in home lot of donor Same. 

30. Bracket. From under a gable pediment of Old Indian House. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

31. Indian Iron Axe Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

32. Autograph Order of Col. Samuel Partridge to Constable of Deer- 

field to impress 2 Squaw Lines, etc., dated Aug. 27, 1706. 

George Sheldon. 

33. The Old Indian House. An oil painting. 

Col. Thomas W. Ripley, Greenfield. 

34. Iron Axe John Trask. 

35. Photograph. Old Indian House with letter press. 

Fisher A. Foster, Washington, D. C. 

36. Print of Old Indian House Oren Wiley, Greenfield. 

37. Hatchet. Found near the site where the first town meeting of Conway 

was held, Aug. 24, 1767 Martha Arms, Conway. 

38. Old Knife. Found on the border of the Nims Swamp (where the 

Deerfield captives camped the night of Feb. 29, 1704), when the 
ground was plowed for the first time. Henry Handforth, Greenfield. 

39. Autograph Letter. John Sheldon. Dated at Quebec, Apr. 1, 1705, 

when on his first visit to redeem captives in Canada. 

George Sheldon. 

40. Autograph Order to Constable of Deerfield. "To impress men, 

horses and provisions on Her Majesty's service. Hatfield, 
Sept. 25, 1706; Sam'l Partridge, Lt. Col. [Endorsed] Deerfield, 
Oct. 10th, 1706. Pursuant to the within order John Sheldon, Con- 
stable, hath impressed Pork and other things by my order and 
direction. John Stoddard, Capt." George Sheldon. 

41. Small Iron Hatchet Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

42. Photograph of Indian Deed. Aug. 26, 1672. From Mashshalisk, 

mother of Wuttawaluncksin, of the land between the Pemiwachua- 
tunk and the Quinnecticut river, extending from Mantahelant to 
Wequamps, unto John Pynchon of'Springfield. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 



20 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

43. Iron Hatchet Franklin Arms, Conway. 

44. Autograph Order. Similar tenor to No. 40. Dated Hatfield, June 21, 

1706 George Sheldon. 

45. Summons of Witnesses. To Constable of Deerfield. Dated Hatfield, 

Dec. 18, 1693. Samuel Partridge, Justice of the Peace Same. 

46. Receipt to Dea. "Shelding" (John Sheldon). For public money. 

Samuel Partridge. Hatfield, Jan. 21, 1705 Same. 

47. Order to Constable of Deerfield or Hatfield. To impress on Her 

Majesty's service for Mr. Samuel Stebbins, 3 men, with 6 pounds of 
pork apiece for their sustenance. Scouting. Sam'l Partridge, 
Lt. Col. July 11, 1706 Same. 

48. Autograph Letter. From Hannah Sheldon, Juile 12, 1705, from 

Springfield. She was daughter of Japhet Chapin of Springfield; 
married to John Sheldon, Jr. When the Old Indian House was at- 
tacked, Feb. 29, 1704, she jumped from a chamber window, was 
captured and carried to Canada. She was one of the first captives 
redeemed, and this letter was written from Springfield on her 
return from Canada, via Boston Same. 

50. Hatchet. From the scene of the "First Encounter," Aug. 26, 1675. 

51. Original Indian Deed. Of Chauk (Chaqve), Sachem of Pocumtuck, 

1666-67 ToTAii of Dedham. 

52. Arrival of Hannah Sheldon at Old Indian House. Illustration for 

"The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield." 

Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith, Greenfield. 

60. Model of Indian Birch Bark Canoe. Presented to the Deerfield 

Academy Museum in 1800, by James Sullivan, Governor of 
Massachusetts * 

61. Snow Shoes. Probably worn by Ensign John Sheldon on his journey 

to Canada, to redeem his children and other captives. 

George Sheldon. 

62. Indian Moccasins John Williams.* 

65. " " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

66. Snow Shoes for an Indian Child Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon. 

67. Modern Canadian Snow Shoes. 

69. Dutch Trade Axe. Plowed up on donor's farm in 1879. Similar to 

No. 10 Lucius B. Wise. 

70. Photograph of Old Indian House. Framed from wood of same. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

72. Iron Axe. English make Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

73. Old Indian House. Painted by the donor. 

Mrs. Lucretia Wilson Eels. 

74. Fragment of Iron Axe Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

75. Trading on the Plains. Framed picture. 

Mrs. Delancy C. Kimball, Leverett. 

76. Hatchet. Found at Broughton's Hill by the donor. 

Edward J. Everett. 
Nos. 92-100 are from William O. Taylor, Shclburne. 



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92. Part of a Sioux Squaw's Hood. 

93. Sioux Knife Sheath. 

94. Arrows from soldiers killed in Custer's last battle. 
95 Sioux Pony Whip. 

96. Portrait of Gen. George A. Custer. 

97. Photograph of Custer's Room, Fort Lincoln, Dakota. 

98. Two Eagle Feathers taken by the donor from the scalp lock of a 

Sioux warrior after the Battle of Little Big Horn, where General 
Custer was killed, June 25, 1876. 92-95 from same place. 

99. Custer on the gallop. Photograph from pen and ink sketch made by 

one of his oflEicers on the last campaign. 
100. Campaign Undress Shirt. Worn by General Custer on his last cam- 
paign in the Black Hills. Given after his death by Mrs. Custer to 
an orderly, from whom it was procured by the donor. 

105. Map of Franklin County. Showing location of Indian tribes and 

villages; prepared by the donor under guidance of Dea. Phinehas 
Field and Jonathan Johnson J. H. Sears, Charleniont. 

106. Snow Shoes Luther Dustin, Brattleboro, Vt. 

107. Birch-bark, used for Indian Canoes * 

109. Painting of the Bloody Brook Massacre in 1675. 

110. Photographs of Modern Indians. Mostly chiefs. About 1870. 

Mrs. W. G. Chamberlain, Denver, Colo. 
Frames (Nos. 110, 130, 135) from Dwight Holden, Greenfield. 

114. Indian Moccasins. Modern Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. 

116. Window Casing and Sash from Old Indian House. Solid Moldings. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 
118. Oil Painting of George Sheldon in 1897 by Augustus Vincent Tack. 

Miss Jennie M. Arms, Greenfield. 
120. Photograph of Henry Childs of Buffalo, N. Y. A generous donor. 

Mrs. Elizabeth H. Childs, Buffalo, N. Y. 
121-124. Arrow Points. Gathered and framed by donor. 

James Smith, Whately. 

125. Arrow Points. Made by donor, and the tools used for the purpose. 

Same. 

126. Arrow and Spear Points, framed William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

127. Photograph of James Smith of Whately Est. of James Smith. 

128. Snakeskin-covered Bow Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

130. Photographs of Modern Indians. 

Mrs. W. G. Chamberlain, Denver, Colo. 

131. Curiously Carved Powder Horn Charles W. Tyler, Greenfield. 

132. Old Trunk for Papers. Used by Col. Israel Williams of Hatfield, 

during the French and Indian War.. .Charles D. Billings, Hatfield. 
135. Photographs of Modern Indians. Same as Nos. 110, 130. 

140. Powder Horn. Carved with maps of Hudson and St. Lawrence 

rivers, towns, forts, etc Mrs. David Kimball, Leverett. 

141. Carved Powder Horn. Made by Jonathan Smead, at Crown Point, 

1760 Jonathan H. Smead, Greenfield. 



22 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

146. Fire Stones. Heated by the Indians, and plunged into the water to 
seethe their raw meat George Sheldon. 

149. Knife made from an old file by Francis M. Thompson at The Dalles, 

Oregon, in 1863. The handle is the horn of an antelope killed by 
the donor Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

150. Case made for the preservation of the Indian House Door. 

Trustees of the Door. 

151. Indian Moccasins Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

152. Quiver and Arrows of a Sioux warrior at the Black Hills. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

153. Moccasins of a Sioux warrior, 1876. .William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

154. Knife Case of a Sioux warrior, 1876. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

155. Ornamental Skin. Used by Indian Medicine Men in incantations.. .* 

156. The Shirt worn by Samuel Allen when he was killed at the 

" Bars," Aug. 25, 1746 From his children.* 

157. Indian Tobacco Pouch * 

158. Leggings of a Sioux warrior. Highly ornamented with beads. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

158^. Line, with Collar armed with Hedgehog Points. ITsed by Indians to 

lead their captives in triumph; brought from Canada and lost by 

Indians at the Bars Fight, 1746 * 

159. Indian Knapsack or Parflesh of Sioux Warrior at the Black Hills. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

160. Indian Ivnapsack or Parflesh. Same history as No. 159 Same. 

161. Indian Hemp. In the various stages of preparation. Grown on 

donor's farm and prepared by him Alfred Cobb. 

162. Belt of Wampum * 

170. Flint Lock Gun. Dug up by the donor on field of battle between 

Capt. William Turner and the Indians, 1676. 

Timothy M. Stoughton, Gill. 

175. Indian Skeleton. Buried in a sitting posture, face turned to the 

rising sun Henry Day, Northfield. 

176. Parts of three Indian Skeletons. Found on the bank of the Con- 

necticut river at Gill Sanderson, Gill. 

196. Powder Horn. Made at Northfield in 1826 by Oliver Corbin, a Maine 
Indian Simeon A. Field, Northfield. 

233. Apache Indian Shoes. (See label).. .Mrs. Caroline F. Lord, Boston. 

234. Apache Indian Moccasins Same. 

248. Letter of Joseph Petty to Rev. Stephen Williams. Giving an ac- 

count of his escape from Canadian captivity, 1705, with three 
companions, John Nims, Thomas Baker and Martin Kellogg. 

William F. Havemyer, New York City. 

249. Group of three Spears Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. 

250. "The Captive Shoe." September 19, 1667, a party of Indians, un- 

der Ashpelon, attacked Hatfield, took a number of men, women 
and children prisoners and carried them to Canada. They wer 



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251. 

252. 
253. 
255. 



259. 



270. 



271. 



275. 



the first English captives taken tliere. Through the bravery of 
Benjamin Wait and Stephen Jennings, the party was redeemed 
in the following May, returning via Lake Champlain and Albany. 
This Shoe was worn home by Sarah Coleman, one of the captives, 
then four years old, and is presented by one of her descendants. 

Edwin Bardwell, Whately. 

Stone with hole bored through it. Found on Fort Hill, to the north- 
east of the Hall Louis A. Phillips. 

Horns of a Moose ^ 

Moccasins Henry Shepherd, Montague. 

Photograph of Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith. Author of "The Boy Cap- 
tive of Old Deerfield," "The Young Puritans of Old Hadley," and 
other stories Mrs. Mary P. Wells Smith, Greenfield. 

Arrows of Modern Indians. With metal points. Four lots. 

James W. Champney. 

Seven Chairs. Wooden, spindle-back, straight square top. 

Samuel T. Grout. 

Chair. Spindle-back, with flowered top. Mended. 

Est. John G. Williams. 

Round table James R. Long, Greenfield. 



Case B. 

1. Indian Stone Axe George Sheldon. 

2. " " " Mrs. Carrie W. Bartlett. 

3. " " " Pliny D. Martindale, Greenfield. 

4. " " " George Sheldon. 

5. " " " Joseph N. Fuller. 

6. " " " Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

7. " " " Hiram LTpton, Charlemont. 

8. " " " C. M. Moody, Greenfield. 

9- " " " Henry Briggs, Greenfield. 

10. " " " Lewis N. Brown. 

11- " " " Edward A. Hawks. 

12. " " " Alonzo Childs. 

13. " " " George Sheldon. 

14. " " " George H. Williams. 

15. " " " John Trask. 

16. " " " George Sheldon. 

17. " " " Same. 

18. " " " Stephen B. Hale. 

19. " " " R. A. Graves, Sunderland. 

20. " " " Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

21. " " " Mrs. Carrie W. Bartlett. 

22. Bullets and Gun Lock. Found on Benoni Stebbins' lot. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

23. Bullet which killed Phineas Arms of Deerfield; fired by an Indian 

at Charlemont, June 11, 1755. Also nails from his coffin. These 



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CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 



articles were found in his grave, in 1871, when the ground was 
being prepared for a monument to Moses Rice, who was buried by 
his side Hon. Joseph White, Williamstown. 

24. Indian Stone Axe James Smith, Whately. 

25. " " " John Fitzgerald. 

26. " " " George Sheldon. 

27. " " " Mrs. Nancy D. Campbell. 

28. " " " Alfred Cobb. 

29. " " " Warren Bardwell, Montague. 

30. " " " Henry Shepherd, Montague. 

31. " " " Joseph N. Fuller. 

32. " " " Alonzo W. Bartlett. 

33. " " " Arthur J. Hawks. 

34. " " " Arthur Hutchins. 

35. " " " Charles Stebbins. 

36-39. Indian Stone Axes George Sheldon. 

40. Indian Stone Axe John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

John H. Stebbins. 

Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

George H. W^illiams. 

George Sheldon. 

Same. 

John Sheldon, Greenfield. 



41. 
42. 
43. 
45. 
46. 
47. 
48. 

49-51. Indian Stone Axes George Sheldon. 

52. 

53. 

53i 

54- 

55. 

56. 

57. 

58. 

59. 

60. 

61. 

62. 

63. 

64. 

65. 

66. 

67. 

69. 



70. 
71. 
72. 



Four Stone Chisels or Celts Joseph A. Baldwin. 

Stone Chisel or Celt Justin B. Hitchcock. 

" " " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

" " " Joseph N. Fuller. 

" " " Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

" " " -Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

" " " George Sheldon. 

" " " Same. 

" " " Arthur Hutchins. 

" Albert Smith, Gill. 

" " " C. Temple Lyons, Greenfield. 

" " " Edward Barney, Jr. 

" " " George Sheldon. 

" " " Mrs. Dr. David Rice, Leverett. 

" " " George Sheldon. 

" " " Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

" " " Harry Wood. 

"Flotsam and Jetsam," Beads, etc. From Indian village sites, Mont- 
gomery county, N. Y., 1881 S. L. Frey, Palatine Bridge, N. Y. 

Fragments of Pottery Same. 

Indian Stone Gouge Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

" " " George H. Williams. 



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73. • Indian Stone Gouge James Smith, Whately. 

74. " " " Nathan Cobb. 

74^. " " " From Indian Grave in Brewster, Cape Cod. 

Mrs. Samuel S. Taylor, South Wellfleet. 

75. Indian Stone Gouge James Smith, Whately. 

76. " " " From Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

George Sheldon. 

77. Indian Stone Gouge Warren Bardwell, Montague. 

78. " " " Joseph N. Fuller. 

79. " " " C. Temple Lyons, Greenfield. 

80. " " " Virgil M. Howard. 

85. " " " Rev. Edgar Buckingham. 

86. " " " Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

87. " " " Frank Brigham. 

88. " " " James Smith, Whately. 

89. " " " Our finest specimen of an unused implement. 

Charles A. Stebbins. 

90. Indian Stone Gouge Simeon A. Field, Northfield. 

91. " " " Charles T. Nims, Greenfield. 

92. " " " Mrs. Nelson Purple, Northfield. 

93. Fragments from an Indian Grave. On site of N. H. & N. R. R. 

Depot, Deerfield George Sheldon. 

94. Indian Stone Gouge Mrs. Electa Squires, Sunderland. 

95. " " " Edward A. Hawks. 

96. " " " Eli Barrows, Sunderland. 

96^. " " " Found at Fort Lucas A. W. Snow, Colrain. 

97. " " " Zeri Smith. 

98. " " " Horace A. Smead, Greenfield. 

99. LTnique Gouge made from Bone Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

100. Indian Stone Gouge. 

101. " " " Charles E. Williams. 

105. Indian Stone Chisel Isaac Wing. 

192. " " " Smead Barney, Greenfield and Montana. 

198. Indian Stone Axe. Found on farm of donor. 

Bishop Frederick D. Huntington, Hadley. 

215. Stone Gouge Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

216. Indian Relics Same. 

218. Indian Stone Chisel Henry Wells, Shelbume. 

219. Arrow Heads, Drill and Spear. Collected by Henry Wells. 

George Sheldon. 

222. 4 Indian Stone Gouges Same. 

224. Indian Stone Axe, unfinished Same. 

227. Indian Stone Chisel Edward A. Hawks. 

228. Three Indian Stone Axes John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

229. Bullet. Found in the old cemetery, Deerfield, 1906, by the donor. 

Master Elmendorf Carr, New York City. 

230. Indian Stone Axe George Sheldon. 



26 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

231. Indian Stone Hatchet Albert Smith, Gill. 

232. Broken Celt Same. 

233. Stone Axe Mrs. Dora Nelson, Greenfield. 

244. Indian Stone Axe Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

Case C. 

1. Collection of Twenty-one Relics. Implements and weapons from 

various sections of the country. Very fine. 

Dr. A. N. Brockway, New York City. 

1^. Axe of the Drift Period. Found at St. Achuel, in the valley of the 

Somme, France Same. 

2. Rubbing Stone. Found at Mantahelant George Sheldon. 

3. Porphyry. Found at same place, on the site of an Indian Wigwam. 

Same. 

4-7. Implements of Unknown Use. From the home lot of Edward C. 

Cowles Same. 

8. Three Arrow Points from Ohio C. H. Ward, Buckland. 

9. Hatchet Lemuel Childs. 

10. " George A. Sheldon, Greenfield. 

11. Axe Same. 

12-13. Unfinished Weapons George Sheldon. 

14. Unfinished Weapons Joseph N. Fuller. 

16. Skinner Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

17. " James Smith, Whately. 

18. " Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

19. " Helen M. Ray. 

20. " John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

21. " Otis May, Conway. 

22. " George H. Williams. 

23. " Joseph N. Fuller. 

24. " Stephen Belden, Whately. 

25. " L. Severance, Shelbume. 

30-35. Unfinished Weapons Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

36-37. Club Heads George Sheldon. 

40. Fhnt Spear Head Roswell Hubbard, Hatfield. 

41. Unfinished Implement Justin B. Hitchcock. 

49. Grinding Stone William Henry Allis. 

50. Indian Corn Mill. From Pine Hill Mrs. Nancy D. Campbell. 

51. " " " George H. Williams. 

r,y U il U .... * 

53, 54. " " Mills George Sheldon. 

56. Com Crusher. Brought by donor from Fort Lincoln, Dakota. 

William O. Taylor, Shelbume. 

57. Grinding Stone George Sheldon. 

58. " " Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

101. Unfinished Weapon George Sheldon. 

102. "Petrified Turtle" George H. Williams. 



INDIAN ROOM . 27 

103. Unknown Implement George Sheldon. 

104-114. Unfinished Weapons Same. 

115. War Club Thomas Dwight, Springfield.* 

116. " " Charles Barber, Winchester, N. H. 

117. " " Cast of a stone found in Boston Harbor. . . N. Vicary, Lynn. 

118. War Club Lester L. Luey, Greenfield. 

119. " " Asahel W. Root. 

120. " " Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

121-122. War Clubs George Sheldon. 

123. War Club John Fitzgerald. 

124. Indian Hoe George H. Williams. 

125. Nut-cracker James Smith, Whately. 

126. Unfinished Weapon Joseph N. Fuller. 

127. Weapon or Implement Stephen B. Hale. 

128. Unkno\\Ti Implement Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

129. " " .' George Sheldon. 

130. " " Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

131-134. I'nknown Implements George Sheldon. 

135. Arrow Heads. From Columbia river. Alfred Stebbins, Oakland, Cal. 

136. Carbine. Found June, 1896, by the donor, on Lincoln street, Green- 

field, four feet below the surface. A charge of powder (No. 137) 
was taken from it James Porter, Greenfield. 

137. Charge of Powder from above Same. 

138. Indian Relic Smead Barney, Greenfield and Montana. 

139. Indian Implement. Use Unknown George Sheldon. 

Case D. 

1. Mortar and Pestle. Taken from grave of a Cheyenne chief's daugh- 

ter, 190 miles north of Fort Laramie, and brought home by the 
donor Samuel Dumble, Marion, Ohio. 

2. Indian Maul Same. 

3. Indian Skull. From a mound at Cochocton, Ohio. Presented to the 

donor by Prof. E. E. Henry James H. Reed, Marion, Ohio. 

4. a, Club Head, b, Hammer, c, Flesher. d, Totem, e, Rare shaped 

Stone Hatchet , Marion, Ohio. 

5. Weapons and Arrow Points. Twelve in number. 

Dr. A. C. Concklin, Delaware, Ohio. 

6. Axe, made of "niggerhead" Thomas Thompson, Marion, Ohio. 

7. Gorget Donor, same as No. 4. 

10. Skull, Jaw Bone, Pottery. From Indian grave, twelve feet below 

surface Dr. R. S. Bowditch, Big Island, Ohio. 

11. Thigh Bone. From human being, at least eight feet tall. Found in 

Marion county, Ohio George Cra-n^ford, Marion, Ohio. 

12. Part of a Mastodon's Rib. Found three miles north of Caledonia, 

Marion county, Ohio Dr. G. F. Harding, Marion, Ohio. 

14. Fragments. Taken from mound in Troy, Delaware county, Ohio, 
where they were found by donor.. . .James S. Reed, Marion, Ohio. 



28 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

15. Fragments of Layers, etc. Dug from same mound by the donor. 

George Sheldon. 

16. Section of a Petrified Snake. Original markings with iridescent 

colors. From the "Bad Lands," Dakota. 

James H. Reed, Marion, Ohio. 

17. Petrifaction. From the "Bad Lands," Dakota Same. 

18. Section of a Petrified Snake. Same as No. 16. 

Mrs. Olive Clelland, Marion, Ohio. 

19. Stone Axe. From Marion county, Ohio . 

Dr. A. C. Conklin, Delaware, Ohio. 
25. Petrified Wood. From the Black Hills. 

James H. Reed, Marion, Ohio. 
26-27^. Petrifactions. From the Black Hills Same. 

28. Copper Ore. From Wyoming Territory Same. 

29. Silver Ore. From Colorado Same. 

30. Moss Agate. From summit of Rocky Mountains. 

Mrs. James H. Reed, Marion, Ohio. 

31. Rattlesnake's Rattle James H. Reed, Marion, Ohio. 

32. Arrow Points Same. 

35. Stone Axe. From Ohio James M. Crafts, Whately. 

36. Pottery. From Florida T. P. Wallace, Marion, Ohio. 

37. Spear and Arrow Points W. C. Cunningham, Marion, Ohio. 

38. Revolving Arrow Points Same. 

39. Saw-edged Arrow Points Same. 

40. Flint Flake. From spot where Col. William Crawford was burned by 

the Indians, in 1782 M. V. Payne, Marion, Ohio. 

41. Pipe Hatchet. Of the same pattern as that carried by Red Jacket; 

found in 1819, under a ledge of rocks, in the Rapids at Blenner- 
hassett Island, by a civil engineer, who gave it to a Mr. Eliot, at 
Washington, from whom the donor had it. 

Samuel Dumble, Marion, Ohio. 

42. Peace Pipe. In red pipe-stone. From a Captive Pawnee Chief, near 

Omaha, Neb., 1854 A. F. WainwTight, New York City. 

43. Photograph — Tecumseh's Pipe. (See label.) 

Daniel De Pue, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

44. Pipe and Spear Head, of pipe-stone Frank H. Rice, Greenfield. 

45. Pipe. From Black Hills Same. 

46. Grinding Stone. 

47. Pipe of Soapstone Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

48. Pipe (Fragments) Justin B. Hitchcock. 

49. Clay Pipe (Fragments). From Indian grave near Fort Dummer. 

Brooks, Brattleboro, Vt. 

50. Grinder. 

51. Stone Pot. From Bernardston Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

52. Arrows and other Relics. Found on Deerfield Meadows. 

Selah Z. Tryon. 

53. Arrow Point Nathan Cabb. 



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60. Relics from Indian Grave. 

These relics were found in a group of graves, on a high point of land 
on the donor's farm, about half a mile north of Turners Falls, in 
1881. The bodies, twelve in number, were buried with their feet 
resting on a circle about five feet in diameter, the heads radiating 
out like the spokes of a wheel. The abundance of charcoal gave 
evidence of the presence of fire at the burial. So far as known, no 
other instance of this mode of sepulture has been found in New 
England. It is a significant fact that among the bones and char- 
coal were fragments of implements broken by fire. Many of these 
fragments could be fitted together, showing that the implements 
had been placed in the fire while whole. These relics are but a 
small part of those found in the graves. 

Timothy M. Stoughton, Gill. 

61. Cup of Soapstone. Found in same grave George Sheldon. 

110. Indian Hammer. 

111. " " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

112. 113. Indian Hammers George Sheldon. 

114. 2 Indian Hammers James Smith, Whately. 

115. Indian Hammer Albert Stebbins. 

116. " " ■ Turners Falls Battle Ground, Albert Smith, Gill. 

117. " " George Sheldon. 

118. " " George H. Williams. 

119. " " James Smith, Whately. 

120-122. Indian Hammers George Sheldon. 

123. 3 Indian Hammers (one small) Albert Smith, Gill. 

150. "Muckcock" of Maple Sugar. Made by Squaws, Red Lake, Minn. 

Given 1882 Mrs. Mary A. Huntoon, Red Lake, Minn. 

151. 2 Arrow Heads, from Indiana Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon. 

152. 24 Arrow Heads from Georgia. 

Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. 

153. Implements of Unknown Use George Sheldon. 

160. Indian Awls Sundry donors. 

161. Skin Rubbers Sundry donors. 

165. Knives Sundry donors. 

166. Prayer Sticks. Used by the Zuni Indians in their devotions. Given 

to the donor by Frank H. Gushing, in 1882. 

Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 
175. Indian Knives, Scrapers, etc. . .Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

177. " " " George H. Williams. 

178. " ' " " Silas N. Brooks, Chicago. 

179. " " " Charles D. Billings, Hatfield. 

180. " " " James Smith, Whately. 

181. " " " E. Graves, Ashfield. 

182. " " " Samuel L. Pratt, Northfield. 

183. " " " George Sheldon. 

200. Club Head, from Webster Farm, Marshfield Same. 



30 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

201. Spinning Weight, from same place . . . Miss Jennie M. Arms, Greenfield. 

202. Spear Head, from Duxbury John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

203. Arrow Point, from Webster Farm, Marshfield Same. 

204. Arrow Point, from Duxbury George Sheldon. 

205. Box of Small Knives or Scrapers. From a shell heap in Duxbury. 

Same. 

206. Circular Stone Paint Pot. Sent from New Mexico by Miss Jane Hunt, 

to the donor Miss Susan M. Lane, Cambridge. 

214. 4 Indian Relics. From the donor's o^\ii garden in Washington. 

Samuel Willard Saxton, Washington, D. C. 

215. Human Bone. Found on battlefield of the "Bloody Morning Scout," 

where Col. Ephraim Williams was killed. (See label.) 

Charles A. Hoyt. 
219. Collection of Indian Relics. Made by the donor. 

Henry Wells, Shelburne. 
237. Indian Implements. Used in making raw-hide lines. 

Benjamin Billings, Antelope Valley, Cal. 

240. Indian Beads. Found in Island Grove Park, Greeley, Colo. 

Mrs. Laura (Billings) Tuckerman, Greeley, Colo. 

241. Pipe Stone Dagger. Carved by Sioux Indians. 

Mrs. J. Russell Bickford, Greenfield. 

Case E. The Johnson Collection. 

The contents of this double case, collected by Jonathan Johnson 
of Greenfield, were bought and presented to this Association by 
Henry Childs of Buffalo, N. Y. They comprise many rare and in- 
teresting relics of the Indians of this valley. 

Here are more than one thousand specimens of Indian handiwork, 
nearly every one of which was picked up from the soil by Mr. Johnson. 

Case F. 

1. Indian Pestle Henry Stratton, Northfield. 

2. " " Frank Brigham. 

3. " " Pliny D. Martindale, Greenfield. 

4. " " Charles Nims, Greenfield. 

5. " " Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

6. " " Frizzell Brothers, Bernardston. 

7. " " Mrs. Edmund M. Potter, Greenfield. 

8. ■' " Pliny D. Martindale, Greenfield. 

9. " " , Wendell. 

10. " " Josiah D. Canning, Gill. 

11. " " Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

12. " " W. A. Horton, Hinsdale, N. H. 

13. " " Alexis Jones. 

14. " " Mrs. Edmund M. Potter, Greenfield. 

15. " " Adams, Leverett. 



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16. 

18. 

19. 

20. 

21. 

22. 

23. 

24. 

25. 

26. 

27. 

28. 

29. 

30. 

31. 

32. 

33. 

34, 

36. 

37- 

40. 

43. 

44. 

45. 

46. 

47. 

48. 

49. 

50. 

51. 

52. 
100. 
101. 
102. 
103. 
104, 
106. 
107. 



108. 
109. 
110. 
111. 
112. 
113. 
114. 



Indian Pestle. 

" Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

" George Sheldon. 

" Charles D. Lyons, Greenfield. 

" Asahel W. Root. 

" Dr. Joseph Beals, Greenfield. 

" Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

" Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

" Mrs. Nancy. D. Campbell. 

" Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

" Heniy Handforth, Greenfield. 

" Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

" From Mantahelant George Sheldon. 

" John Robinson, Sunderland. 

" Edward Barney, Jr. 

" Mrs. Nelson Purple, Northfield. 

" Charles E. Williams. 

35. Indian Pestles George H. Williams. 

Indian Pestle Mrs. Mary Taft, Sunderland. 

39. Indian Pestles Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

Indian Pestle Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

Henry Stratton, Northfield. 

David Sheldon. 

Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

2 Indian Pestles Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

Indian Pestle Mrs. Electa Squires, Sunderland. 

" William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

" " Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

" " John Fitzgerald. 

Pocumtuck Pottery, fragments Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

George Sheldon. 

" " " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

Potterj^ From Georgia Mrs. Oren Wiley, Greenfield. 

105. Pocumtuck Pottery Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

Pocumtuck Pottery Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

Bark. Taken by the donor from an Indian grave on home lot of 
George Sheldon. Doubtless part of the coffin of an Indian child. 

Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

Pottery. From Agawam Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 

Potter\' Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

" Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 

" Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

" George Sheldon. 

Indian Teeth. From a grave Same. 

Indian Stone Beads. From grave near Chelsea. . . . N. Vicary, Lynn. 



32 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

116, 117. Sinkers for Nets. From Manomet Point, 1867. George Sheldon. 

118. Sinkers. From Plymouth Same. 

119. Spinning Bob. From Plymouth Same. 

120. Amulet James Smith, Whately. 

121. " George Sheldon. 

122. Indian Paint Pot N. Austin Smith, Sunderland. 

123. Gorget Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

124. " Found at Bloody Brook Alfred M. Kingman. 

125. Ornaments Nathan Cobb. 

126. Gorget of Amrusus. The Indian husband of Eunice Williams, daugh- 

ter of Rev. John Williams, and one of the captives of 1704. 

Rev. Stephen Williams, Long Meadow.* 

127. Gorget, fragment Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

128. " James Smith, Whately. 

129. ' Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

130. Banner Stone or Mace James S. Bryant, Hartford. 

131. " " " Moses S. Ward. 

132.' " " " Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

133. " " " Warren Bardwell, Montague. 

134. " " " Charles E. Williams. 

136. " " " Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

137. Amulet. Found in Conway George Sheldon. 

138. Indian Mace Jonathan Ashley. 

139. " " unfinished C. Temple Lyons, Greenfield. 

140. " " Same. 

141. " " George Sheldon. 

142. " " C. Temple Lyons, Greenfield. 

143. Arrow Points, and the Tools with which they were made by the donor. 

James Smith, Whately. 

144. Cartridge. Taken from the belt of an Indian killed in the Custer 

Fight, 1876 William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

145. Part contents of an Indian Grave, Petty's Plain. Copper foundation 

for an epaulette, pieces of pipe stems, buck shot and beads. 

Joseph H. HoUister, Greenfield. 

146. Pendant Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

147. " George Sheldon. 

148. Amulet and Indian Paint. From an Indian grave in the home lot of 

donor Same. 

149. 150. Stones worn by Dressing Bow Strings John Fitzgerald. 

151. Stones worn by Dressing Bow Strings George Sheldon. 

152. Stone worn by Dressing Bow Strings. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

153. Arrow Straightener Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

154. Unknown Implement John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

155. Knife of French Manufacture. From field of Bloody Brook Massacre 

in 1675; dug up when digging a well about 1775. 

Alfred M. Kingman. 



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156. Hand Diggers Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

157. " " Harry Woods. 

158. Totem. From Beers Battle Field George Sheldon. 

159. " From Plymouth Same. 

160. Stone Scalping Knife E. Graves, Ashfield. 

161. " " " Stephen S. Marvel, Leverett. 

162. " " " Mrs. M. A. Williams. 

163. " " " Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

164. Piece of a Digger Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

165. Hand Digger Charles D. Lyons, Greenfield. 

166. " " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

167. " " Found in Northfield.. .Henry W. Dickinson, California. 

168. " " George Sheldon. 

169. " " Edward Barney, Jr. 

170. " " Justin B. Hitchcock. 

171. Pottery. From Para, Brazil. Brought by James W. Champney. 

R. J. Rhome, Para, S. A. 

172. Hand Digger Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

173. " " Justin B. Hitchcock. 

174. 

175. *' " Charles D. Lyons, Greenfield. 

176. Indian Drinking Cup * 

177. Unknown Implement Zeri Smith. 

178. Hand Digger Nathan Cobb. 

179. Soapstone Pot or Aukook. Found at Rocky Mountain in Deerfield 

by Esq. John WiUiams, 1751-1816 * 

179^. Pottery Fragments Justin B. Hitchcock. 

180. Pottery Fragments Joseph N. Fuller. 

183. Pendant George H. Williams. 

184. Iron Camp Hook. Found on Smead's Island, with other implements, 

1869 Charles D. Lyons, Greenfield. 

185. Connecticut Pottery James Smith, Whately. 

186. Hand Digger Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

187. Stone Saw Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

188. Imperfect Arrow Points and Pottery. From mounds near Mandan, 

Dakota William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

191. Fragment of Florida Pottery Charles R. Sturtevant. 

195. Fragments of Pottery Smead Barney, Greenfield. 

209. Indian Spinning Bob. From home lot of George Sheldon. 

Edward A. Hawks. 

210. Bead from Indian grave (black) F. E. Dickinson, Leverett. 

231. Hand Digger Susan B. Hawks. 

235. " " Miss Maiy W. Lincoln, Boston. 

242. Scalping Knife Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

243. Banner Stones Same. 

245. Hand Digger and Arrow Head Same. 

246. Banner Stone Same. 



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CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 



250. Arrow Points and the Tools with which they w^ere made. 

James Smith, Whately. 

251. Half a Banner Stone Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

252. Clay Pottery. From Florida Charles P. Sturtevant. 



Case G. 

1. Indian Stone Knife 

O '< << (( 

3. " " 

^ K It U 



6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
30. 
31. 
32. 
33. 
34. 
35. 
40. 
41. 

43. 

44. 
45. 
46. 



Spear Head. 
Knife 



Spear or Arrow Points 



Levi Boutwell, Leverett. 

.Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

James Smith, Whately. 

Edward A. Hawks. 

Henry C. Haskell. 

Freeman Bowman. 

Edward Barney, Jr. 

John Robinson, Sunderland. 

James Smith, Whately. 

Samuel L. Pratt, Northfield. 

Patrick DahiU. 

Darwin T. Keyes, Conway. 

, .Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 



Mrs. Delancy C. Kimball, Leverett. 

George H. W'illiams. 

Justin B. Hitchcock. 

Lewis J. Smith. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

Warren Bardwell, Montague. 

Levi Boutwell, Leverett. 

Edward Barney, Jr. 

George Sheldon. 

From Ohio Mrs. J. Y. Bergen. 

Warren Bardwell, Montague. 

Michael Whalen. 

James Smith, Whately. 

John Kane. 

Michael Whalen. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

Edward Barney, Jr. 

Nathan Cobb. 

George Sheldon. 

Charles H. Ward, Buckland. 

Fred S. Wheeler, Whitehall, 111. 

Edward A. Hawks. 

John Robinson, Sunderland. 

Jonathan Ashley. 

From Ohio Mrs. J. Y. Bergen. 

Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

D. C. Kimball, Leverett. 



INDIAN ROOM 35 

47. Spear or Arrow Points Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

48. " " " From Broughton's Hill George Sheldon. 

49, 50. " " " Warren Bardwell, Montague. 

51. " " " James S. Bryant, Hartford, Conn. 

52. " " " Charles Stebbins. 

53. " " " Louis A. Phillips. 

54. " " " Edward Barney, Jr. 

55. " " " Moses Ward. 

56. " " " John Fitzgerald. 

57. " " " . . -Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 
GO. " " " John Fitzgerald. 

61. " " " Samuel L. Pratt, Northfield. 

62. " " " Charles D. Billings, Hatfield. 

63. " " " Eugene Trask. 

64. " " " John Robinson, Sunderland. 

65. " " " Henry C. Haskell. 

66. " " " Richard Costello. 

70. " " " Alanson Bowman. 

71. " " " Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

72. " " " M. B. Murray, Greenfield. 

73. " " " Truman Wrisley. 

74. " " " Mrs. Almeda Plumley. 

77, 78. Drills George Sheldon. 

79. Drill Edward Barney, Jr. 

80. " Charles D. Lyons, Greenfield. 

81. " C. Temple Lyons, Greenfield. 

82. " Samuel L. Pratt, Northfield. 

S3. " Jonathan Ashley. 

84. " George Sheldon. 

85-87. 3 Drills Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

90. War Points Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

91. " " '. George Sheldon. 

93, 94. " " Edward A. Haw^ks. 

95. 

96. 

97. " " Henry C. Haskell. 

98-100. " " Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

101. " " Hart Phillips, Hoosick, N. Y. 

102. 3 Spear Heads. 5J inches long. Found together on Pine Hill, 

May 18, 1886 Edw^ard A. Hawks. 

110. Arrow Point Dexter Childs. 

111. Drill Richard Costello. 

112. W\ar Point Edward S. Childs. 

113. Scraper Charles Barber, Winchester, N. H. 

120. War Point George Sheldon. 

125. Scraper Same. 

126. Arrows, Drills, etc Fred. Wright, Montague. 



36 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

127. Arrows, Drills, Fragments Sundry Parties. 

128. " " Arthur Hutchins. 

129. Scraper Samuel L. Pratt, Northfield. 

130. Flints and Arrow Points ."^ John Fitzgerald. 

131. 132. Fragments of Arrow Heads. 

133. War Points, Texas George E. Eels. 

134. " " Stephen BeJden, Whately. 

135. Scraper. 

136. Points. 

137. Spear Head Dexter Childs. 

138. Scraper '.....Otis E. Field, Northfield. 

139. Relics Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York City. 

140. " Marcus Newton, Greenfield. 

141. Miscellaneous Fragments. 

142. "Chunkey" Stone * 

143. 145. Rubbing Stones George Sheldon. 

146. Grinding Stone Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

147-152. Grinding Stones George Sheldon. 

153. Spear Head. 7| inches by 2^ inches. 

Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

188. Spear Head Truman Wrisley. 

189. Spear Head. Found on home lot of the donor Richard Costello. 

190. Stone. From the grave, at Niantic, Conn., of Sarah, widow of 

Joseph Socush. She was the last of the Niantics. George Sheldon. 

191. Spear Head. From Plymouth Same. 

207. Triangular quartz Arrow Point Clarence P. Hoyt. 

208. Arrow Points. Found on home lot of George Sheldon. 

Edward A. Hawks. 

213. 2 Large Spear Heads. From Petty 's Plain Mrs. Mary A. Reese. 

223. Spear Heads George Sheldon. 

225. Arrow Heads Same. 

236. " " Miss Mary W. Lincoln, Boston. 

247. Spear Head James S. Grinnell, Greenfield. 

251. 10 Arrow Points. Found by the donor on the bluff some 100 rods 

west of "Old Ford." These are the gleanings of a large find, by 
Salmon Chapman, which he sold to Amherst College, about 1874. 

George Sheldon. 

252. 5 Arrow Points John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

253. Photograph. Of obverse and reverse of an Indian ornament of soap- 

stone, found near Stonington, Conn. 

Miss Fanny Cheesebrough, Stonington, Conn. 

254. Relics from Beers Battlefield at Northfield George Sheldon. 

Case H. 

1 . Indian Relics. Collected at Hoosac Samuel Childs. 

4. Pottery. Nine pieces, from Zuni Indians. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Huntingttn, Cleveland, Ohio. 



INDIAN ROOM 37 

5. Pottery. From Indian prehistoric stone graves in Tennessee. 

James Smitli, Whately. 

6, 7. Casts of New England Indian Pottery. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

9. Collection of 28 Arrow Heads Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

10-12. Indian Pottery George Sheldon. 

13. Peruvian Whistle. Dug up from the grave of a Peruvian warrior, 

in Callao, Peru, by Thomas Redfield Proctor, Paymaster, U. S. N., 
in 1862 Aaron Arms, Bellows Falls, Vt. 

14. Relic. "From Brick Fort [?] of Mound Builders, Foster's Crossing, 

Ohio." Mrs. J. Y. Bergen, Cambridge. 

15. Relics. From Wisconsin Mounds Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 

20. Indian Drinking Cup, of grass Joseph H. Hollister, Greenfield. 

21. Basket. Made of grass, by the Maine Indians. 

Miss Parsons, Kennebunk, Me. 

22. Flag Basket Mrs. Samuel S. Taylor, South Wellfleet. 

23. Birch Bark Box, with cover * 

103. 11 Arrow Heads. From an Indian grave in Elmwood, Tenn. 

Gardner M. Sherman, Springfield. 

104. Collection of Indian Shell Implements, Arrow Heads and Pottery. 

Gathered at St. Petersburgh, Fla., by the donor. 

Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

105. Indian Arrow Heads. Collected by the donor. 

Mrs. Dora Nelson, Greenfield. 

Table I. 

Most of the stones on this table show one or more faces made by 
artificial wear by Indians. They may have been used in shaping 
weapons or in dressing skins. Usually found on village street. 

1-15. Rubbing Stones. Found on home lot of donor or at Broughton's 
Hill, within a bowshot George Sheldon. 

16. Stone. Found at Broughton's Hill John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

17. Indian Implement, 81 inches by 2l inches . . Smead Barney, Greenfield. 

25-41. Indian Implements Albert Smith, Gill. 

50-54. " " George H. Williams. 

60, 61. " " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

62. " " John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

63. Cemented Stone. The two parts of which were separated, passed 

through different vicissitudes, and finally were united again never, 
we trust, to part James Smith, Whately. 

64. Miscellaneous Collection of Soapstone Pottery. Found in this region. 

Sundry donors. 

Table J. Pitted Stones. 

The use of these stones has not yet been discovered. Their 
characteristics are one or more pits or depressions on each side, 



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CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN ME.MORIAL HALL 



although some have them on one side only, and others have two, 
three and more on each side. The stones vary in size and shape, 
and run from small pebbles of two inches in diameter to large boulders 
four feet in circumference, weighing over sixty pounds. They are 
not found in all localities where Indians lived, like their ordinary 
relics, but have nearly all come from a few particular localities within 
two miles of Memorial Hall. They constitute an interesting problem, 
there being nearly three hundred specimens. Only a few can possibly 
be classed as "Nut Crackers." The others are the work of an un- 
known people for unknown purposes. 



2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

7. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21- 
26- 
30- 

39, 
41. 
42. 
43, 

48. 
49. 
50. 
51. 
52- 
58. 
59. 
60. 
61. 



The largest Pitted Stone in this collection, \^hich weighs 632" lbs. 

Joseph N. Fuller. 

Pitted Stone, 42 lbs George Sheldon. 

" 3 oz. 

" Edward A. Hawks. 

Harriet C. Howe, Bloody Brook. 

" Mrs. Nancy D. Campbell. 

" George H. Williams. 

Stephen B. Hale. 

" Edward A. Hawks. 

" Moses S. Ward. 

" John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

" Frank Bickford, Greenfield. 

" Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

" George A. Sheldon, Greenfield. 

" John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

" Justin B. Hitchcock. 

" George Sheldon. 

25. Many-pitted Stones. From Mantahelant.. . .Edward A. Hawks. 

29. " " " " " George Sheldon. 

38. " " " From south of Cheapside bridge on the 

ledge since cut away by the Canal Railroad Same. 

40. Many-pitted Stones Same. 

Many-pitted Stones (2) John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

Pitted Stones (3) Same. 

44. Pitted Stones, with drilled pits. From Rocky Mountain, Green- 
field Mrs. Annie D. Newcomb, Greenfield. 

Pitted Stones (2) George Sheldon. 

Same. 

From Fort Hinsdale, 1873 Same. 

" " From Temple Farm Same. 

■57. Pitted Stones Same. 

Pitted Stone Smead Barney, Greenfield. 

" " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

" " Henry Williams. 

" Susie B. Hawks. 



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39 



Pitted Stone. The first pitted stone observed and preserved so far 

as the donor has learned George Sheldon. 

Pitted Stone Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

Edward A. Hawks. 

John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

Albert Smith, Gill. 

Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

From Westminster, Vt. . . .Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 
Triangular Pitted Stones. 



63. 

64. 

65. 

66. 

67. 

68. 

69. 

70-72 

74. Double-pitted Stone. From Broughton's Hill. 

John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

Pitted Stone Frederick Wright, Montague. 

Circular Stone, 4 inches thick and 9^ inches in diameter, with large 
pits on either side, as symmetrical as if from a lathe. (See label.) 

Ralph Parks, Bernardston. 

Box containing Three Pitted Stones. Found by the donor. (See 

enclosed paper.) G. Hilton Scribner, Yonkers, N. Y. 



75. 
76. 



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KITCHEN 

1. Mantle Tree. Taken from the donor's house in 1876, having done 

service 130 years over the parlor fireplace George Sheldon. 

2. Hearth Stone. From the house where Judge Daniel Wells was born 

and grew up, now owned by the donor. 

Dr. William S. Severance, Greenfield. 

3. Iron Crane. From the house built by the town for Rev. John Wil- 

liams, in 1707, last occupied by Esther Dickinson. Now standing 
west of the Academy Dickinson Estate. 

4. Iron Trammels. For hanging heavy pots and kettles on the crane. 

Same. 

5. Long Trammel. For hanging from lug-pole in the chimney. In use 

before the crane Same. 

6. Pot Hooks of varying length Same. 

7. Dinner Pot of Moses Rice. Moses Rice was one of the earliest set- 

tlers of Charlemont. His first night there was spent under the 
large button-ball tree now standing by the road, north of the 
railroad depot, on the opposite bank of the river. While hoeing 
corn, a short distance east, he was shot by Indians, June 11, 1755. 

The Misses Maxwell, Charlemont. 

8. Short Pot Hook Mrs. Jane Richardson Goodnow, Leverett. 

9. Iron Tea Kettle Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

10. Copper Tea Kettle, very old Mrs. Eunice K. BrowTi. 

11. Iron Basin with Bail. About 1820... .Moses, Julia and Lotta Ward. 

12. Iron Fry Basin. Used by Francis Richardson, an early settler of 

Leverett, 1768-1849 Mrs. Jane Richardson Goodnow, Leverett. 

13. Back Log, Fore Log and Top Stick Joseph B. Saxton. 

14. Iron Goose Neck Andirons Dickinson Estate. 

15. " " " " Col. Thomas W. Ripley, Greenfield. 

16. Iron Facet Head Andirons, 1780. With supports for roasting spit. 

Belonged to Dr. Elihu Ashley, the donor's grandfather. (See 27.) 

Jonathan Ashley. 

17. Cast Iron Andirons. Used in father's family George Sheldon. 

18. Iron Andirons — top of one gone. . Heirs of John G. Williams. 

20. Small Dish Kettle, about 1820. . .Mrs. Leantha C. Boyden, Conway. 

21. " " " Made at the foundry of Samuel Billings of Hard- 
wick, uncle of the donor Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

22. Dish Kettle Mrs. Catherine E. B. Allen. 

23. Iron Kettle, small Miss Clarissa Scoby, Greenfield. 



KITCHEN 41 

24. Iron Pot, small Mrs. Jane Ackerson, New York City. 

26. Old Brass Kettle. 

27. Dripping Pan. Dr. Elihu Ashley's, 1780. Used with No. 16. 

Jonathan Ashley. 

28. Old Dripping Pan, 1780 Dickinson Estate. 

32. Brass Skimmer Samuel T. Grout. 

33. Revolving Gridiron, 1770 Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

34. " " Justin B. Hitchcock. 

35. Three-pronged Meat Hook, 1800 George Sheldon. 

36. Revolving Gridiron, 1790 Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

37. Crane Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

39. Three long, Iron Forks for taking up boiled dinner. 

40. Loggerhead, 1800. Used in making flip in the old "Boatmen's Tav- 

ern," at Montague City. 

41. Loggerhead, 1790. Belonged to Deacon Baker of Conway. 

Charles Lee, Mill River. 

43. Loggerhead. 

44. Large Iron Spoon. 

47. Bake Kettle or Dutch Oven, 1780. Coals put on the lid. 

Dickinson Estate. 

48. Bake Kettle, 1780 Miss Harriet Hitchcock. 

49. Long Iron Tongs, 1770 Mrs. Oscar Hawks, Greenfield. 

50. Iron Shovel, 1780.. .Misses Emily and Fanny Hinsdale, Bernardston. 

51. Tobacco and Pipe Box, 1790. Belonged to grandmother of donor. 

Albert Childs. 

52. Pipe Tongs, 1750. Used to take up coals to light pipe. 

Asahel Root. 

53. Pipe Tongs, 1785 Henry Shepherd, Montague. 

54. " " Harriette O. Bardwell, Walpole, N. H. 

55. Combination Pipe Tongs and Poker. Made by David Shaw, Plain- 

field Horatio Shaw, Plainfield. 

59. Candlestick Est. "Little Mary" Hawks. 

60. Candle Reflector, 1835. From Landlord Hall's dance hall, in East 

Charlemont Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

61. The upper half of a crude Oil Lamp. Earliest style. In this the wick 

simply floated in the oil, projecting at the nose. Found in Conway. 

Cephas G. Clapp. 

62. Betty Lamp. Tin. Got by donor, in 1886, at an old house in York, 

Me., where it had been used for generations. 

Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

65. Meat Hook and Skewers for Roasting. Very old. Found in the old 

Dr. Wells house, Montague David C. Marsh, Montague. 

67. Roasting Jack. Brought from England by the donor. 

Miss Ellen Chase, Brookline. 

68. A Small Fancy Trammel and Meat Hook. Fine work from the anvil 

of the old-time blacksmith .Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

69. Three-pronged Meat Hook George Sheldon. 



42 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

70 Roasting Hook Mrs. Amelia Saxton. 

74. Candle Holder with Reflector to hang on wall, 1825. 

Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

75. Candle Reflector, same as No. 74 George Sheldon. 

76. Model of Nabby Marshall's "Kial Lamp." 

Mrs. Nancy Harding, So. Wellfleet. 

77. Branding Iron, 1810. Used by Seth Sheldon George Sheldon. 

79. Iron Bread Peel, 1790. Used in taking bread from brick oven. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

SO. Iron Bread Peel, 1780 Mrs. Oscar Hawks, Greenfield. 

81. Brass Skimmer Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

84. Tin Sifter or Colander, small Same. 

85. Tin Colander. Belonged to Patty Pomroy of Warwick, who married 

Barnabas Billings in 1792. Mother of the donor. 

Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

86. Strainer Dickinson Estate. 

87. Long-handled Fry^ing Pan, 1780. Used by the donor's mother and 

grandmother Stebbins, worn out in use and mended. 

Lotta Ward. 

89. Long-handled, Two-tined Toasting Fork Emerine A. Henry. 

90. Knives and Forks Dickinson Estate. 

91. Frying Pan, 1780 Moses, Julia and Lotta Ward. 

92. " " Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

99. Pair of Glass Bottles or Jars. Used by Dr. George Bull. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 
102. Stone Jar, small. Used by Dr. George Bull Same. 

106. Lantern George Sheldon. 

107. Very Tall Japanned Candlestick William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

108. Tin Lamp. Wick, If inches wide George Sheldon. 

109. Petticoat Lamp Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon. 

110. " " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

111. " " verj' old George Sheldon. 

112. " " Est. "Little Mary" Hawks. 

113. Small Low Lamp, one wick. 

114. Tiny Candlestick. 

115. Tinder Box and Candlestick. Used with flint and steel. 

HoUis D. Graves, Sunderland. 

117. Candlestick Mrs. Elvira Richards, Northfield. 

118. A pair of Candlesticks Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

119. Candlestick, small Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

120. " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

121. " old Mrs. Elvira Richards, Northfield. 

122. Two Candlesticks Mrs. Eunice K. Bro'rni. 

125. Sausage Filler. 

126. Brass Kettle, small, 1830. Used in Dr. George Bull's family. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

127. Pair of Glass Lamps Mrs. Frank D. Boyden. 



KITCHEN 43 

J 28. Glass Lamp Samuel Willard. 

129. A Pair of Glass Lamps Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

13L Earthen Bean Pot, 1840 George Sheldon. 

132. Sausage Filler Miss Fanny H. Wilson'. 

133. Bean Pot Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

134. Lantern. About 1840. Octagonal, glass, with guards. 

George E. Marsh, Georgeto\\Ti, Colo. 

135. Lantern, glass and tin. 

136. Brass Kettle, big Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

137. " " Est. of Dr. John Stone, Greenfield. 

138. Earthen ^lilk Pan Moses, Julia and Lotta Ward. 

139. '• " " John F. Spring, Greenfield. 

140. " " " Samuel T. Grout. 

141. " " " George Sheldon. 

142. Sausage Filler, tin Heirs of Dea. John G. Williams. 

143. Flint Lock Musket, 1810. Used in training by Dea. Henry Hitchcock. 

father of the donor Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

146. Iron Slice or Fire Shovel, 1770 Orra Russell. 

147. " " Emory Lee, Greenfield. 

148. " " Elizabeth W. Champney. 

150. Iron Tongs, early pattern George E. Marsh, Georgeto-^\ii, Colo. 

151. Tongs Cephas G. Clapp. 

152. Squeezers, used in making lard Samuel T. Grout. 

154. Fire Pan, to carry coals Mrs. C. E. B. AUen. 

156. Bellows HoUis D. Graves, Sunderland. 

157. " Est. of John G. Williams. 

158. " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

160. Wooden Indigo or Dye Tub. Stood in the corner of the fireplace in 

olden times Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

161. Large Wooden Corn and Salt Mortar and Pestle. . .Dickinson Estate. 

162. " " " " " " " " Traced in the Slate 
family, of Gill, for 114 years Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

163. Large Wooden Corn and Salt Mortar and Pestle. 

Sylvester Wilcox, Whately. 

164. Large Wooden Corn and Salt Mortar and Pestle. 

James Smith, Whately. 

165. Unique Salt Mortar and Pestle. Made by Shubael Bradford, the 

father of the donor, about 1790. His tools were an axe and auger, 
aided by live coals of fire to smooth out the inside. 

Shubael Bradford, Conway. 

166. Wooden Mortar. Which Zechariah Field carried from Deerfield when 

he went to Northfield to settle, 1716. Twelve inches high, thirteen 
inches across and of soft wood Timothy Field, Northfield. 

170. Tin Roasting Kitchen, 1825 Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

171. " " " " George Sheldon. 

172. " " " " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

175. Tin Biscuit Baker, 1830 George Sheldon. 



44 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

176. Small Tin Baker, 1830 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

177. Tin Bird Roaster, 1830 Judge Samuel Williams. 

178. " " " Elisha Stratton, Northfield. 

179. Tin Pie Heater Same. 

182. Iron Spider, 1800 Samuel T. Grout. 

183. " " " Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

187. Old Brass Kettle. 

188, 189. Two Pipkins. 

190. Portable Charcoal Furnace. For field use. . 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

191. Iron Skillet. For culinary purposes, found beside the well of an old 

farmhouse, where it was used for a washbasin. These skillets were 
often put to a similar use in their old age. 

Mrs. Edmund M. Potter, Greenfield. 

192. Iron Skillet, 1830. Used in Dr. George Bull's family. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

193. Iron Skillet Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

196. Tall Trivet, 1790 Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

197. Wooden Handled Trivet Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

198. Trivet, 1790 Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

201. Trivet with Brass Kettle E.st. Dr. John Stone, Greenfield. 

203. Trivet, 1790 Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

204. Iron Basin with Bail. 

205. Iron Basin, 1800 George Sheldon. 

207. Flatiron Rest Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

208, 209. Old Brass Skimmers Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

210. Brass Ladle. Given to Susan Nims by her Aunt Esther Wells, 1772- 

1853. From her mother Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

211. Long-handled Brass Skimmer Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

212. Copper Ladle Mrs. Olive Watson, Amherst. 

213. Brass Ladle Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

214. Small Brass Kettle Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

217. Revolving Gridiron. Made at North Sunderland in 1823 by Nathan- 

iel Hatch for the mother of the donor. 

Hart Phillips, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 

218. Square Gridiron Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

220. Little Round Gridiron. 

221. Little Square Gridiron, for rashers, 4 bars. . .Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

222. Gridiron, square, 1810. Used by the mother of donor. 

George Sheldon. 

223. Revolving Gridiron, 1760 Same. 

224. Gridiron, square Joseph Robbins. 

228. Long-handled Iron Shovel Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

240. Six Quart Pewter Basin. Brought from Canada in 1812 by William 

Barnard, father of the donors; used in the family for a milk pan. 
Miss Abigail Barnard, 1799-1895, and Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

241. Two Large Pewter Platters. Mrs. Alice Newcomb Smead, Greenfield. 



KITCHEN 45 

242. Coffee Pot. 

243. Pewter Quart Basin Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

244. Rushes for scouring Pewter Same. 

245. Rushes for scouring Pewter. Used in old times. 

Mrs. William Pevere. 

246. Ancient Nursery Heater Chauncey Bryant, Greenfield. 

247. Pewter Tumbler James Smith, Whately. 

251. Pewter Quart Basin Frank D. Boyden. 

252. Pewter Basin Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

253. Pewter Plate Same. 

254. Four Pewter Platters Same. 

255. Pewter Platter Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

256. Pewter Platter, 1725. Belonged to "Kiah" and "Moll" Stratton 

before 1736 Miss Mary T. Stratton, Northfield. 

257. Pewter Platter Miss Harriet N. Hitchcock. 

258. Pewter Platters Mrs. Alice N. Smead, Greenfield. 

262. Pewter Mug. Used by Landlord Benjamin Henry of South Halifax, 

Vt Mrs. David Ashcroft, Whately. 

263. Copper Gill Measure. Made by John P. Bull about 1760. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

264. Pewter Cup Charles Sturtevant. 

265. " " Moses, Julia and Lotta Ward. 

266. 267. Pewter Tumblers Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

270. Pewter Extinguisher Samuel B. Williams, Rochester, N. Y. 

272. Pewter Mug Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

274. Pewter Pepper Box Miss Charlotte Willard, Springfield. 

275. Pewter Saltcellar.. '. William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

280. A Pair of small Pewter Lamps. ..Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

282, 283. Pewter Pint Basins Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

290, 291. Pewter Lamps Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

292. Pewter Quart Mug. Used by Lieut. John Brown, Whately, in 1787 

and later by his son Chester Browii. 

:\Irs William H. Fuller, Whately. 

293. Pewter Mug Mrs. Mehitable H. Stratton, Gill. 

295. Pewter Tankard Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

296. Pewter Tankard Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

297. 298. Pewter Lamps Miss C. Alice Baker. 

302. PeM^ter Plate. Preserved in the Alden family, said to have come in 

the Mayflower Mrs. Alden, Wendell. 

303. Pewter Plate, 1790 Moses, Julia and Lotta Ward. 

304. Six Pewter Plates Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

305. 306. Pewter Plates George Sheldon. 

307. Pewter Plate. 

310. Little Porringer. 

311. Porringer. From which Mrs. M. E. (Anthony) Farnsworth was fed 

when a baby in 1819 Mrs. M. E. A. Farnsworth, Conway. 

312. Pewter Porringer Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 



46 CAT.U.OGUE OF RELICS IX MEMORIAL HALL 

313. Pewter Porringer. Used by an English family for five generations. 

James Smith, Whately. 

314. Pewter Porringer Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

315. " " George Sheldon. 

316. " " William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

322. Britannia Teapot Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

323. Teapot. 

324. Britannia Teapot Mrs. Man,' Ann Wright. 

325. A Pair of Britannia Teapots. Belonged to Mrs. Maria Stowell Steb- 

bins, married 1824 Mrs. Sarah W. Cowles. 

326. Britannia Teapot Mrs. Mary Ann Wright. 

327. " " Mrs. Edmund M. Potter, Greenfield. 

328. Teapot. 

331, 332. Two Pewter Plates , Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer, Colrain. 

333. Pewter Plate. Marked ISP (John, 1739-1806, and Persis, 1747- 
1829, Sheldon) George Sheldon. 

335. Pewter Plate, 1760. It belonged to donor's grandmother, Mary, 

daughter of Jonathan Gardner, born 1739, who married Jonathan 
Andrews Mrs. Sarah Narbonne, Salem. 

336. Pewter Plate, 1790 .' George Sheldon. 

337. " " " Moses, Julia and Lotta Ward. 

338. " " Belonged to Hannah Allen, great-grandmother of the 
donors Eliza and Emily Thayer. Greenfield. 

342. Five Pewter Liquid Measures. Issued by Commonwealth of Massa- 

chusetts to towns Special Subscription. 

343. Five Pewter Liquid Measures Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

346. Large Platter ♦ Frank D. Boj^den. 

347. " " Charles Sturtevant and George Sheldon. 

348. " " Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

349. Chafing Dish. Used by Almon R. Brainard, Greenfield. 

Dr. Charles L. Fisk, Greenfield. 

354. Wooden Candle Box. Used for storing the donor's year's supply of 

home-made candles Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

355. Gin Case Samuel Willard. 

356. Knife Basket Dickinson Estate. 

357. " " Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

358. " " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

359. Large Wooden Bowl Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

360. Sheep Shears Est. of Dr. John Stone, Greenfield. 

361. " " George Sheldon. 

362. Iron Mortar and Pestle Same. 

363. " " '• •' Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

364. Iron Dish Kettle. Which once belonged to Rev. John Williams, 

"The Redeemed Captive." 

Mrs. E. J. B. Crittenden, Rochester, N. Y. 

365. Tin Mould for casting two candles Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

366. " " " six candles, 1830 George Sheldon. 



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367. Tin Mould for six candles Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

368. " " " twelve candles, square Est. Charles Jones. 

369. " " " twelve candles, long, with rods Same. 

370. " " " twenty-four candles Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

371. Bundle of Candle Rods Same. 

372. Tin Toast Dish Alanson Hubbard, Sunderland. 

373. " " " 1790. Belonged to mother of the donor. (See No. 85.) 

Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

377. Dresser. Belonged to Enos Cook who settled in Dummerston, Vt., in 

1770 David L. Mansfield and Myron Dutton, Dummerston, Vt. 

378. Tea Caddy Miss Clarissa Scoby, Greenfield. 

379. Tin Money Box. Owned by Daniel Giles of New Salem, 1768-1849. 

Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

380. Small Brown Jug Same. 

381. Little Tea Caddy Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

382. Tea Caddy Mrs. Edmund M. Potter, Greenfield. 

383. Small Teapot Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

384. Tea Canister. Used in family of Parley Clary Wares Same. 

385. " " Same. 

386. Stone Jar, small. For keeping snuff George Sheldon. 

387. Two Bread Trays Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

388. Two Small Waiters Hart Phillips, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 

389. Rolling Pin. Turned in a wooden lathe in 1804, by the husband of 

"Meen Cook." The couple lived partly underground, in the 
"Commonwealth," so called, in Northfield. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

390. Japanned Tin Spice Box Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

391 . 392. Two Teapots, Black Jackfield George Sheldon. 

393. Teapot, Black Jackfield Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

394. Wooden Trencher Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

395. " " Used in mother's family George Sheldon. 

396. " " Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 

397. " " Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

398. " " Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

399. 400. Two Teapots, Black Jackfield George Sheldon. 

401. Tea Tray. Given to Elizabeth Nims, in 1754, before her marriage 

with Maj. Salah Barnard Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

402. Waiter Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

403. " small, Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

404. "Apple Pie" Plate Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

405. Round Tea Tray Eliza and Emily Thayer, Greenfield. 

406. Stone Jar Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

408. Fish-shaped Stone Jug Mrs. Nelly H. Hatch, Detroit, Mich. 

409. Stoneware Flask Mrs. Edmund M. Potter, Greenfield. 

410. Rolling Pin. Made by Dexter Marsh for mother of donor. 

George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

411. Large Stone Jug Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 



48 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 



412 



Wire Sieve Samuel T. Grout. 



413. Bread Tray, tin Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

414. Toy Model Stove. About 1850 Miss Emily Bullock, Greenfield. 

415. Scouring Board Marshall S. Stearns, Northfield. 

416. Original Boot-jack Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

417. Clothes Basket Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

418. Tobacco Pipe Box. Used in the Old Indian House when a tavern. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

419. Board for cutting up leaf tobacco to smoke. Used by Thomas Bard- 

well, 1691-1781, and John Bardwell, 1735-1814. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

420. Home-made Ear-trumpet Horatio Shaw, Plainfield. 

421. Cupboard. (See label.) Mrs. IsabeUa Stevens, Greenfield. 

422. Earthen Jar Mrs. Horace A. Smead, Greenfield. 

423. Stone Jar, yellow Est. Charles Jones. 

424. " " small Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

425. " " Joseph Robbins. 

426. Red Earthen Jar Mrs. Calista Hitchcock. 

427. Large Stone Jar Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

428. Red Earthen Jar with Cover and Handle. . . .Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

429. Sieve Miss. Clarissa Scoby, Greenfield. 

430. 431. Wooden Bread Bowls Samuel T. Grout. 

432. Tea Caddy containing Tobacco Seed Est. of John G. Williams. 

433. " " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

434. Soup Tureen Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

435. Wooden Dipper William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

436. Three Small Plates, two blue-edged Charles H. Stebbins. 

437. Scalloped Plate with Sprigs Same. 

439. Tin Flour Box. 

440. Oil Bottle George Sheldon. 

441. Platter Mrs. Liberty Wright, Montague. 

442. 443. Round, Scalloped Cream-colored Platters. Queen's Ware. 

Rare Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

444. Chicken Pie Nappy, old Same. 

445. Nutmeg Grater Miss Clarissa Scoby, Greenfield. 

446. " " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

447. Spice Grater George Sheldon. 

448. Wooden Spoon Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

449. Drinking Gourd Mrs. Dennis Childs, Conway. 

450. Earthen Vase George Sheldon. 

451. Pepper Box Dickinson Est. 

452. Tin Pepper Box Mrs. Susan Dike Marsh, Northfield. 

453. Salt Dredger Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

454. Nutmeg Grater Same. 

455. " " Miss Clarissa Scoby, Greenfield. 

456. Grater Dickinson Est. 

458. Fruit Di.sh John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 



KITCHEN 49 

459. Soapstone Saltcellar C. R. Whitney, Montague. 

460. Pepper Box Mrs. Susan D. Marsh, Northfield. 

461. Wooden Castor, 1800. Belonged to the mother of the donor. (See 

No. 85.) V Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

462. Britannia Castor. Bought for the mother of the donor in 1824. 

Hart Phillips, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 

463. China Plate Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

464. Blue-edged Plate Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

465. Blue-edged Nappy. 

466. Saucer, Pink and Wliite Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

467. Saucer, Blue and White Same. 

468. Blue and White Nappy Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

469. Tea Cup Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

470. 471. Sugar Bowls Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

472. Sauce Dish Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

473. Sugar Bowl Dickinson Est. 

474. Green-edged Gravy Boat Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

475. Blue-edged Gravy Boat. Owned by donor's grandmother, Dorothy 

Bigelow of Colchester, Conn., on her marriage to John Brown of 
Whately, about 1772 Mrs. John N. White. 

476. Sauce Boat Mrs. Susan Dike Marsh, Northfield. 

477. Mustard Jar George Sheldon. 

478. Platter Same. 

479. Octagonal, Green-edged Plate Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

480. 481. Plates Dickinson Est. 

482. Plate, blue-edged Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

483. Dish Dickinson Est. 

484. Platter George Sheldon. 

485. Earthen Teapot. Used by Jonathan Flagg. 

Mrs. Sabra F. Long, Greenfield. 

486. Teapot. 

487. An Old China Cup. Formerly belonging to the great-grandmother 

of the donor, Hannah Learned Giles of New Salem, 1776-1860. 

Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

488. Teapot Mrs. Edmund M. Potter, Greenfield. 

489. Mustard Pot Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

490. " " Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

491. " " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

492. Blue and White Banded Bowl George Sheldon. 

494. Plate Dickinson Estate. 

495. Dish . ..Same. 

496. Nappy Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

497. Blue-edged Nappy Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

498. Blue-edged Plate Same. 

499. Dish Mrs. Eunice K. Bro%vn. 

500. Blue-edged Plate Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

501. Yellow Mug with foliage William Ryther, Bernardston. 



50 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

502. Cream Pitcher Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

503. Cream Pitcher, white, with flowers Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

504. Mustard Pot Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

505. Pitcher James Smith, Whately. 

506. Small Yellow and Brown Mug Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

507. Yellow Mug Miss Clarissa Scoby, Greenfield. 

508. Blue-edged China Dish Dennis Stearns, Conway. 

509. Green-edged Platter Estate of Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

510. Oval, Green-edged Platter Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

511. Green-edged Plate Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

512. Large Glass Bottle Same. 

513. Two Glass Bottles George W. Mark, Greenfield. 

514. " " " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

515. Five Glass Bottles Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

516. Pocket Flask Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

517. Glass Bottle Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

518. Two Glass Bottles Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

519. Glass Bottle Alfred Cobb. 

520. Flask Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

521. Glass Bottle Same. 

522. Three Glass Bottles. Made at the Glass Works in Warwick about 

1812 Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

523. Glass Bottle Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

524. Black Bottle. Used in the Sheldon family exclusively for best com- 

pany Rum George Sheldon. 

525. Small Flask Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

526. " " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

575. Candle Box Same. 

576. Tin Candle Box, 1820 Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

577. Two Iron Candlesticks with open-work borders. 

579. Britannia Castor George Sheldon. 

580. Clove Gourd. Used by mother of donor Same. 

581. Iron Coffee Pot Charles Sturtevant. 

582. Tea Caddy Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

583. Iron Coffee Pot Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

584. " " " Miss Abigail Barnard. 

585. Ancient Iron Coffee Pot, 1770 Israel W. Billings. 

586. Combined Lantern and Footstove. . .Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

587. Slate. Used by donor's father, Aaron Dike of Northfield about 

1760 Mrs. Susan Dike Marsh, Northfield. 

589. Old family Kitchen Clock, 18th Century George Sheldon. 

590, 591. Clock Weights. Made by David Shaw. 

Horatio Shaw, Plainfield. 

592. Round Tea Tray. 

593. Tea Tray, 1800 Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

594. Baby Carriage. (See label.) Enos B. Wells, Worcester. 

595. Mirror. 



KITCHEN 51 

596. Warming Pan. 

597. " " Mrs. Esther Crittenden, Shelburne. 

598. Hot Water Foot-warmer with Cushion. 

Mrs. Walter B. Nichols, Springfield. 

599. Hot Water Foot-warmer with Cushion Rev. Robert Crawford. 

600. Foot Stove Col. Thomas W. Ripley, Greenfield. 

601. 602. Foot Stoves Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

603. Foot Stove with Ash Pan, 1780 George Sheldon. 

604. Spice Mill Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

604 J. Coffee Mill. Used in the family of Dexter Marsh of Greenfield. 

George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

605. Pepper and Spice Mill Mrs. Dr. David Rice, Leverett. 

606. Kitchen Table. Owned by Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

Mrs. Margaret Jones. 

607. Shingle Looking Glass Mrs. Frank W. Stebbins. 

608. Small Cradle. Made by Onesemus Nash of Greenfield about 1821. 

Miss Emily Bullock, Greenfield. 

609. Kitchen Turn-up Bed, 1810. Occupied by the father and mother of 

the donor in their early married life George Sheldon. 

610. Bed Curtains Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

611. Bed Wrench. Made by the father of the donor. 

Jonathan H. Smead, Greenfield. 

612. Melon-shaped Willow Basket, 1740 Edwin Barrett, Belchertown. 

613. Goose Basket. Used in picking geese. 

Mrs. George E. Adams, Greenfield. 

614. Clothes Basket Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

615. Willow Basket Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

616. Oblong Basket of Indian Work Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

617. Oval Keeler Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

618. Wooden Bowl Mrs. Alice N. Smead, Greenfield. 

619. Kitchen Table Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

620. Oval Knot Bowl. Made by David Ryther of Bernardston, about 

1790 Mrs. George Holton, Northfield. 

621. Wooden Bowl. Made from an ash burl Miss Alma Hawks. 

622. Wooden Knot Bowl Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

623. Kjieading Bowl. Used by the grandmother of the donor. Worn 

out in service Col. Roger H. Leavitt, Charlemont. 

624. Bowl of Ash Burl or Kjiot with ears like a tub. 

Clarence E. Crafts, Whately. 

627. Chopping Knife and Tray Samuel T. Grout. 

628. Wooden Soap Dish. Dr. Bull's. . . .Mrs. Julia E. Bobbins, Shelburne. 

629. Bread Trough. Used in the family of Dexter Marsh of Greenfield. 

George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

630. Mirror, round, concave * 

631. Press Board Mrs. Mary Ann Wright. 

632. Ancient Flatiron with Core Henry Shepherd, Montague. 

633. Polishing Iron with Core, 1780 Miss Mary M. Luey, Shelburne. 



52 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

634. Tailor's Goose M. R. Pierce, Greenfield. 

635. Flatiron Rest. 

636. " " George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

637. Bread Trough and Paddle, 1800 

Mrs. Alice Newcomb Smead, Greenfield. 

638. Foot Stove Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer, Colrain. 

639. " " Dickinson Est. 

640. Framed Photograph of Jesse Williams. 

William W. Wright, Geneva, N. Y. 

641. Dash Churn of Mrs. Caroline Sheldon, 1810 George Sheldon. 

642. Revolving Churn. The first successor of the straight dash churns. 

McClellan Brothers. 

643. Tin Churn Mrs. Nancy Comins, North Hadley. 

644. Wooden Churn Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

644^. " " Dickinson Est. 

645. Dash Churn Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

646. Stone Churn Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

647. Split Birch Broom. Made by the donor in 1875. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

648. Wooden Bread Peel. Belonged to Sarah Catlin, married in 1761; 

great-grandmother of the donor. . . . Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer, Colrain. 

649. Toasting Iron Joseph S. Clark. 

650. Palm Leaf Broom Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

651. Toasting Iron Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

652. " " long-handled Willie D. Monnier, Greenfield. 

653. " " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

654. " " Joseph Robbins. 

655. Gourd Dipper Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

656. " " Elisha Stratton, Northfield. 

657. Piggin, 1710, Old Indian House. The primitive dipper of England. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

658. Wooden Dipper, 1800 George Sheldon. 

659. Tin Dipper. To complete the evolution. 

Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon. 

660. Waffle Irons Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

661. Curling Tongs Mrs. Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

662. " " Dr. David Rice, Leverett. 

663. Table M. J. Kenny, Bernardston. 

664. Wooden Chopping Tray Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

665. Spice Mortar and Pestle. From the Old Indian House. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

666. Mortar and Pestle that belonged to Mercy Sheldon when she mar- 

ried Dea. John Bardwell, Jan. 19, 1763 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

667. Mortar and Pestle Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

668. " " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

669. Spice Mortar George Sheldon. 

670. Iron-bound Mortar with Pestle Mrs. Alice N. Smead, Greenfield. 



KITCHEN 53 

671. Mortar and Pestle. Made by Israel Washburn of Georgia, Vt., used 

by his daughter, Susannah, grandmother of the donor, who was 
born in 1832 George H. Williams. 

672. Spice Mortar Mrs. Leantha C. Boyden, Conway. 

673. Snuff Mill. Used for making snuff. Owned for generations in the 

Amidon family. Modelled after one brought from Ireland by the 
McCrellis family of Colrain Lucy Emerine (Amidon) Henry. 

674. Iron-bound Water Bottle. 

675. Iron-bound Water Bottle with Iron Handle. 

Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

676. Apple Barer Miss Clarissa S. Scoby, Greenfield. 

677. " " Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

678. Aaron Denio's Dinner Pot. 

(See label.) Aaron Denio was son of James and Abigail (Stebbins) 
Denio, who were captured Feb. 29, 1704. He was born in Canada, 
and came home to his grandfather Stebbins in 1716. He was a noted 
tavern-keeper in Greenfield. 

Orrin W. Sage, Casenovia, N. Y., through Samuel J. Lyons, Green- 
field. 

679. Wooden Tray Col. Roger H. Leavitt, Charlemont. 

680. Cradle. An old heirloom George Sheldon. 

681. Cradle, 1720. In which five generations of Nimses have been reared. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

681^. Unique Cradle. Rocking endwise. Made in 1840 by Dexter Marsh 

of Greenfield, for the donor.. .George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

682. Settle. Owned by Jacob Rich, who settled in Warwick before 1777. 

Great-grandfather of the donor Jasper L. Gale, Warwick. 

683. Settle. Known to be over ICO years old in 1880. 

Hon. Alfred R. Goodrich, Vernon, Conn. 

684. Light Stand Mrs. Ashton Carter, Charlemont. 

685. Snuffers and Tray Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

686. Pair of Iron Candlesticks Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfielcl. 

687. Chair, Flag-bottom Dickinson Est. 

688. " Mrs. Elvira Richards, Northfield. 

689. Oxbow Chair, 1810. 

690. Child's Chair, very old. 

Misses Emily and Fanny Hinsdale, Bernardston. 

691. Child's High Chair Alfred Booth, Springfield. 

692. Chair. Brought from Martha's Vineyard in 1777 by Robert Cath- 

cart L. S. Abell, Conway. 

693. Arm Chair. Belonged to the great-grandfather of the donor. 

Alanson Hubbard, Sunderland. 

694. Black Chair with four slats Mrs. Melly H. Hatch, Detroit, Mich. 

695. Baby Chair. Used by donor when a child Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

696. "Uncle Sid's" Beaver Hat Dickinson Est. 

698. Perforated Tin Lantern Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

699. Water Gourd, 1775 Mrs. David Kimball, Leverett. 



54 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

700. Water Gourd Mrs. Nancy A. Chapin, Gill. 

701. Gourd Dipper. Once the property of Sally Putnam, a cousin of Gen. 

Israel Putnam. She lived with her brother, Capt. William Put- 
nam, who settled on "Put's Hill" in Buckland, soon after the 
Revolutionary War Miss Ethel Bardwell, Greenfield. 

702. Rocking Chair Miss Sarah A. Steams, Dummerston, Vt. 

703. Wooden, Pear-shaped Water Bottle. X^sed in family of Dexter 

Marsh of Greenfield George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

704. Woodpn Mortar Same. 

Annex. 

723. Cheese Ladder William H. Bartlett, Peoria, Ariz. 

724. Wooden Bucket Mrs. Mary Ann Wright. 

725. Cheese Tub McClellan Brothers. 

726. Wooden Pail, 1800. In constant use for more than seventy years. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

727. Cheese Basket Joseph Robbins. 

728. Four Cheese Hoops McClellan Brothers. 

729. Wort Ladder Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

730. Cheese Ladder George Sheldon. 

731. Cheese Press McClellan Brothers. 

732. Clothes Pounder. For clothes barrel used on washing day. 

George Sheldon. 

733. Neck Yoke. Formerly used in carrying pails of water or sap. 

Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. 

734. Mortar and Pestle with its Stand; and Brass Door-plate of Dr. John 

Stone Est. of Dr. John Stone, Greenfield. 

737. Map of Greenfield, Philadelphia, 1855. .Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

739. " " England "Little Mary" Hawks. 

740. " " Massachusetts, Boston, 1836. 

741. " " Deerfield, Philadelphia, 1855 Charles H. Stebbins. 

742. Origin of the .\mericsin Flag William O. Taylor, Shelburne Falls. 

Case A. 

1. Iron Snuffens and Tray Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

2. Snuffer Tray Mrs. Eunice K. Bro\vn. 

3. " " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

4. Tray Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

5. Snuffers Est. John G. Williams. 

6. " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

7. Iron Snuffers and Tray. Handed down in the family to ApoUos Mor- 

gan of Northfield. Given by his widow. Elvira Morgan, Northfield. 

8. Snuffers and Tray Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

10. Dark Lantern Same. 

11. Tinder Box with Revolving Steel George Sheldon. 

12. Pocket Tinder Box with tinder. Steel from the end lost. 

George A. Kimball, Greenfield. 



KITCHEN 55 

13. Toddy Sticks Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

16. Ladle. Made from a knot by David Ryther of Bemardston, 1790. 

(See K620.) Mrs. George Holton, Northfield. 

17. Wine Tester Mrs. Henry Cowing (Katherine Kelly Cowing). 

18. Curved Wooden Spoon George Sheldon. 

19. Wooden Scoop Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

20. " Spoon Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

21. " " George Sheldon. 

23. Sugar Tongs. Made by a frontier blacksmith and used in the Lyman 

family at Northfield Mary T. Stratton, Northfield. 

24. Loaf Sugar Cutters Charles Sturtevant. 

25. Sugar Cutters. 

26. " " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

28. Pewter Spoon Mould Lewis Taylor, Hinsdale, N. H. 

29. Mould for Pewter Spoons. Owned by Lemuel Martindale, one of the 

first settlers of Greenfield. He built his cabin on Silver street. In 
this mould all of the spoons of the neighborhood were cast, each 
his owTi, 1750 Levi Stiles, Greenfield. 

30. Spoon Mould. Type metal in iron frame, 1790. 

Horatio Shaw, Plainfield. 

31. Pewter Tea Spoon Moses L. Ward. 

32. Pewter Spoon, 1770 Mrs. Sarah A. Dustin, Brattleboro, Vt. 

33. Pair of Pewter Spoons. Belonged to Jonathan Flagg, 1796. Cast in a 

wooden mould Mrs. Julia Long, Greenfield. 

36. Spice Mortar and Pestle Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

37. Connecting Link between the Mortar and Pestle and the Spice Mill. 

Mrs. Dr. David Rice, Leverett. 

38. Same Miss Elizabeth Purple, Northfield. 

Nos. 37 and 38 are the only specimens of their kind kno^mi to us. 

39. Spice Mill. Part of the marriage outfit of Hepzibah Dickinson, who 

married Elihu Field, Dec. 30, 1774.. .Rodney B. Field, Guilford, Vt. 

43. Two Green-handled Knives. Belonged to the donor's mother when 

married in 1807 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

44. Carving Kjiife and Fork. Belonged to Capt. Seth Lyman of North- 

field, grandfather of the donor.. . .Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

45. EJiife and Fork. Capt. Seth Lyman's Same. 

46. Three Knives and Three Forks Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 



MEMORIAL ROOM 

MEMORIAL TABLETS 
CENTRAL TABLET 

Erected a. d. mdccclxxxii, 

BY THE 

PocuMTucK Valley Memorial Association: 

In honor of the Pioneers 
of this Valley, by whose courage 
and energy, faith and fortitude 
the savage was expelled 
and the wilderness subdued; 
and to perpetuate the remembrance 
of the sufferings at Deerfield, 
Feb. 29, 1703-4, 
when, before the break of day, 340 French and Indians, 
under the Sieur Hertel de Rouville, 
swarming in over the palisades on the drifted snow, 
surprised and sacked the sleeping town, 
and killed or captured 
the greater part of its inhabitants. 



On Tablets at either hand, 

recorded in love and reverence by their kindred; 

are the names and ages of those 

who lost their lives in the assault, 

or were slain on the meadows 

in the heroic attempt to rescue the captives, 

or who died on the hurried retreat to Canada, 

victims to starvation 

or the tomahawk. 



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57 



WAITSTILL WARNER, 24. 

On the retreat. — Her husband, 

Ebenezer, 27, with children, 

Sarah, 4, Waitstill, 2, and 

nephew, Daniel Crowfoot, 3, 

were captured. 
The father and Sarah returned. 



DAVID ALEXANDER, 

and daughter, Mary, 2. 

Captured and redeemed, 

Mary, the wife and mother, 3C. 



JONATHAN KELLOGG, 5. 

Martin, his father, 45, 

with other children, 
Martin, 17, Joseph, 12, 
Joanna, 11, Rebecca, 8, 

were captured. 

All returned but Joanna, 

irho married an Indian Chief. 

The others became noted 

Official Interpreters 
in the Old French War. 



NIMS FAMILY. 

Henry, 22, Mehitable, Jr., 7, 

Mary and Mercy, 5. 

Mehitable, the mother, 36, 

wife of Godfrey, on the retreat. 

Other children ; captured, 

Ebenezer, 17, Abigml, 2, 

Elizabeth Hull, 15. 

Taken Oct. 8, 1703, John, 24, 

Zebediah Williams, 28. 

John ran away June, 1704, 

Ebenezer and Elizabeth redeemed. 



SAMUEL HINSDALE, infant. 

Mehuman, his father, 31, 

the first white man born in town, 

with wife, Mary, were 

captured and came home. 



REBECCA MATTOON, 23, 

with infant. — Philip, 

her husband, 24, on the retreat. 

Sarah, his sister, 17, 

captured, redeemed, and 

married Zecheriah Field. 



"Mr." JOHN CATLIN, 65, 

Son of John and Isabella, of 

Wethersfield, Conn. — One of the 

founders of Newark, N. J., 1665, 

he came to Deerfield, 16S3, 

at its Permanent Settlement. 

Noted in the annals of both towns. 

Progenitor of the Deerfield 

Catlins, he was killed in 

defending their ancestral home. 

Children slain, 

Jonathan, with his father; 

Joseph, on the Meadows. 

Captured and redeemed ; 

John, 17, and Ruth. 



John French, infant. 

Mary (Catlin), on the retreat. 

Dea. Thomas, the father and 

husband, with other children, 

Mary, 17, Thomas, 14, 

Freedom, 11, Martha, 8, 

Abigail, 6, were captured. 

Dea. French, with Mary, 

and Thomas were redeemed. 



Elizabeth (Catlin), wife of 

James Corse, on the retreat. 

Elizabeth, Jr., 8, captured; 

Alive in Canada, 1716. 



58 



CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 



ELIZABETH SMEAD, about 64, 

"smothered in a cellar," 

with Mary (Price), 23, 

Sarah, 4, William, 2, 

Mother, wife and children 

of Samuel Smead. 



SARAH, 50, 

Wife of Robert Price. 

Samuel, 18, their son, 

was captured and returned. 



Sgt. BENONI STEBBINS, 50. 

0/ seven men and a few women who 

defended his house against the 

fierce assaults of the savages 

for two hours, he only was slain. 



SAMSON FRARY, about 64, 
a settler of 1670, with grand- 
daughter, Mercy Root, 15, 
M.-VRY, his wife, 64, 
was killed on the retreat. 



SHELDON. 
Hannah, wife of John, 39, 
shot through the 
Old Indian House Door. 

Mercy, 2, 

Killed on the door stone. 

Captured and returned ; 

Hannah, Jr., 23, 

Mary, 16, 

Ebenezer, 12, 

Remembrance, 11. 



HOYT FAMILY. 

David, Jr., 24, on the Meadows. 

Dea. David, 52, starved at Coos. 

Abigail, 2, on the retreat. 

The wife and mother, 

Abigail (Pomroy) Hoyt, 44, 

with children, Lydia Pomroy, 20. 

Sarah, 17, Jonathan, 15, 

and Ebenezer, 8, were captured. 

All but the latter returned. 



CARTER. 

Persons killed, 

Hannah, wife of Samuel, 29, 

Thomas, 4, Marah, 3, and 

Hannah, 7 months, their children. 

Captured children, 

Samuel, 12, Mercy, 10, John, 8, 

and Ebenezer, 6. 

Ebenezer alone returned, 

he was one of the early settlers 

of Canaan Parish, 

now Neiv Canaan, Conn. 



Mrs. EUNICE WILLIAMS, 39, 

John, 6, Jerusha, an infant, 

wife and children of the 

Rev. John Willia7ns, 40. 

First Minister of Deer field, 

"The Redeemed Captive." 

Their children captured ; 

Samuel, 15, Esther, 11, 

Stephen, 10, Eunice, 7, 

Warham, 4. — all returned 

but Eunice, who married, 

June, 1713. Amrusus, an Indian. 



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59 



HAWKS. 

Alice, wife of Sergt. John. 

John, Jr., 32, with wife 

Thankful (Smead), 36, 

and children, 

John, 7, Martha, 4, 

Thankful, 2, were 

"Smothered in a cellar." 

Elizabeth, 6, daughter of 

Sergt. John, on the retreat. 



SARAH FIELD, 2. 

Mary, her mother, 28, 

Wife of John, 

With children, 

Mary, 6, and John, 3, 

loere captured. 

Mary adopted by an Indian , 

Was named Walahowey. 

She married a savage, 

and became one. 



GARRISON SOLDIERS, and 

men who came to the rescue. 

from the toivns below — 

In the assault; 

Jonathan Ingersol, 28, 

Thomas Selden, 26, 

Martin Smith, about 50. 

On the Meadows; 

Sgt. Benjamin Wait, about 54, 

the Hero of the Conn. Valley; 

Samuel Allis, 56, 

Samuel Foot, about 26, 

of Hatfield, 

Joseph Catlin, about 23, 

David Hoyt, Jr., 24, 

of Deer field, 

Sgt. Samuel Boltwood, about 53, 

Robert, his son, 21, 

Jonathan Ingram, 27, 

Nathaniel Warner, Jr., 22. 

of Hadley. 

Jacob Hickson, 20, 

Starved on French River. 



MARY BROOKS, on the retreat. 

Nathaniel, her husband, 39, 

Mary, 7, and William, 6, 

their children, captured. 
Only the father came hoine. 



Mary Wells, 30, 

Daughter of Lieut. Thomas; 

Hepzibah, her mother, 54, 

wife of Daniel Belding, 

on the retreat. 



ANDREW STEVENS, an Indian. 

Elizabeth, his wife, 20, 

Daughter of Robert Price, 

captured. — In 1716., 

she married in Canada, 

Jean Fourneau. 

Pathena. — Frank, 

her husband on the retreat; 

Negro servants of the 

Rev. John WiUiams. 



BENONI HURST, 2, 

on the retreat. — His mother, 

WiD. Sarah, with children, 

Sarah, 18, Elizabeth, 16, 

Thomas, 12, Hannah, 8, 

Ebenezer, 5, were captured. 

The mother with the two 

older children, returned. 

Esther Pomroy, 27, 

on the retreat. 

Joshua, her husband, 28, 

captured and came back. 



60 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

John Allen, 44, slain by Indians 

at the Bars, May 11, 1704. His wife, 

Elizabeth, was captured, and 

killed in the woods near by. 



Line of Descent. 

1, Edward, of Ipswich, 1670, d. 1696. 

2, John, b. 1660. 

3, John, b. 1684. 

4, Noah, b. 1727. 

5, Apollos, b. 1756. 

6, Marsena, b. 1789. 

7, Samuel P., b. 1814. 

8, Cornelia S. Allen Smith, b. 1839. 

by whom this Tablet is erected. 



In Memory of 

Philip Mattoon of Deerfield, 

A Soldier in King Philip's War, 

Died Dec. 30, 1696. 



Erected by the children of 

Charles H. and Jane Sanford Mattoon 

of Plymouth, Conn. 1905. 



Zechariah Field 

1645-1674. 

A settler at Pocumtuck 

Before Philip's war. 

His remains lie in an unknown grave 

In the old burjMng ground. 

Many of his descendants 

Have attained international fame. 

In his honor 

This tablet is placed in 1903 

by 

Marshall Field 

of Chicago. 



MEMORIAX ROOM 61 

In honor of 

Nathaniel Sutcliffe 

of Dedham before 1661 

Medfield in 1663 

A settler in Pocumtuck in 1673 

With his wife, Hannah Plympton 

A soldier in Philip's war 

Killed with Capt. Turner 

May 19, 1676. 

Erected by 

B. H. Sutliffe 

Of^Plymouth, Conn. 

1903 



In Memory 

of 

Mr. Samuel Allen, 

who was killed by the Indians on the meadow north of 

The Bars Homestead 

while valiantly defending his children, 

August 25, 1746: 



of 

Eunice Allen, 

his_]daughter, aged 13, who was tomahawked by the Indians, 

but survived: 



of 

Samuel Allen, 

his son, aged 8, who was taken captive by the Indians, 

but after many months was rescued through the 

gratitude of an Indian woman, by his uncle. 

Col. John Hawks. 

Both children thus restored to their mother, 

Hannah Hawks Allen, 

lived to be the oral historians of this eventful day 

and of their generation. 



Erected by the descendants of 

Caleb Allen, 
son of Mr. Samuel Allen of 

"The Bars." 



62 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

Samson Frary 

Son of John of Medfield 

Married there Mary Daniel. 

He was at Hatfield in 1668. 

Was one of two planters at Deerfield in 1670. 

Driven off by the savages, he came back 

At the final settlement, 

And was slain at the sacking of the town 

Feb. 29, 1703-4. 

Bold, brave, persistent. 

Line of descent, from Samson Frary. 

Nathaniel Frary 1675 

Nathan Frary 1719-1794 

Electa Frary Parsons, 1759-1824 

Lucretia Parsons Morton 1789-1862 

Levi Parsons Morton by whom 

This stone is placed. 



Godfrey Nims 

Ancestor of the Nims family in America 

Settler at Pocumtuck before Philip's war 

A soldier under Capt. Turner at the Falls Fight 1676 

Prominent in the civil affairs of Deerfield 

In 1692 he bought the home lot 

Where his life's tragedies were enacted 

And upon which stands this Memorial hall 

In honor of 

Godfrey Nims and Mary Miller his wiie, 

This marble is here placed by 

Franklin Asa Nims, 

Greeley, Colorado. 

1903 



1. Francois Hertel, Sieur de Rouville. From a contemporary portrait 

in the possession of Madame H. de Rouville, Montreal, Can. 

Prof. William Bennett Munroe, Williamstown. 

2. Photograph of the Monument of Eunice Williams George Sheldon. 

3-5. Ruins of Fort Chambly, Canada. Point of arrival and departure of 

many New England captives, during the old French and Indian 
wars. Photographed by Miss Emma L. Coleman, Boston. 

Miss C. Alice Baker. 
6. Apple Trees. Planted by "Ignase Raizenne" [Josiah Rising, a captive 
carried from Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1703-4] at his homestead at Oka, 
Lake of the Two Mountains. Photographed by Miss Emma L. Cole- 
man Same. 



MEMORIAL ROOM 63 

7. Ruins of Fort Chambly, Canada. Photographed by Miss. Coleman. 

Same. 

8. On the Road to Boucherville on the St. Lawrence. This town was the 

home of several members of the Stebbins family who were carried 
captives to Canada from Deerfield, in 1704. Photographed by 
Miss Coleman Same. 

13. Framed Photographs of Memorial Stones, erected by the Northfield 

Village Improvement Society, 1897, and dedicated by the P. V. M. 
Association Mrs. Adeline Button Alexander, Northfield. 

14. Portrait in Oil of Lieut. Elijah Arms, 1727-1802. Given July 8, 1903. 

Philomela Arms Williams. 

15. Portrait in Oil of Naomi Lyman Arms, 1739-1818 Same. 

16. Washington. In oval gilt frame Clara A. Colton, Boston. 

19. Photograph. Jonathan Root Childs of Chicopee, 1822-57. 

Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

20. Portrait of Hon. James S. Grinnell James S. Grinnell, Greenfield. 

40. Zebina Stebbins, 1797-1879 Mrs. Carrie S. Ward, Worcester. 

41. Ruby Graves Stebbins, 1797-1877. Wife of the above Same. 

42. President Zackary Taylor. 

43. Arms Family of Bellows Falls, Vt George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

44. Mrs. Caroline Bardwell Arms, 1794-1855 Same. 

45. Lucius Manlius Boltwood, 1825-1905 George Sheldon. 

46. William Henry Harrison. 

47. Full Length Portrait of Washington, 26x18, steel. From the original 

painting in the State House, Hartford, Conn. 

Heirs of George W. Mark, Greenfield. 

48. Fifty cents. Fractional currency of the Civil War. Issued 1862. 

Presented by Julia Munn Ashley as a memorial of her brother, 
Charles Hawks Munn, bom Apr. 12, 1844. He was never seen after 
going over the side of his sliip to bathe, May 10, 1864, while the 
vessel was moored in the Irrawadda river, Burmah. This script was 
sent home with his effects. 

49. Memorial of Wilham Henry Harrison. 

50. Col. Jolin Wilson, 1782-1869 Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

51. Betsy Hoyt, 1783-1860. Wife of Col. John Wilson Same. 

52. Mrs. Caroline Williams Putnam in Youth and Maturity. 

Mrs. Caroline W. Putnam, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

53. SaUie (Wright), wife of Dr. Joseph Woodman, born in Deerfield, 1796. 

Hon. William W. Wright, Geneva, N. Y. 

54. Cynthia Wright, bom in Deerfield, 1779 Same. 

55. Elijah Wright, bom in Deerfield, 1781; died 1866. 
David " " " 1783; " 1861. 
Henry " " " 1786; " 1872. 

Stephen B. " " " 1788; " 1875 Same. 

Nos. 53, 54, 55, all of one family. 
58 Gov. Jolm Leverett Mrs. W. S. Alexander, New Orleans, La. 



64 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

59. Dr. Stephen W. Williams, 1790-1855, his wife and children. 

Mrs. Caroline W. Putnam, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

60. Copy of the Williams Coat of Arms Same. 

61. Photograph of George Fuller, 1822-84 Mrs. Agnes H. Fuller. 

62. Life and Works of George Fuller. Memorial volume. Written by his 

friends as a tribute to his genius Same. 

63. John Marshall, 1755-1835. Chief Justice, U. S. Supreme Court. 

64. President Garfield. 

65. Governor George N. Briggs Rev. Robert Crawford, D.D. 

66. Secretaries Foreign Missions Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

67. Commission of Lieut. Jolm Clarke. Signed by Jolin Hancock, July 1, 

1775 J. C. Black, Com. of Pensions, Washington, D. C. 

69. Presidents of the United States. Washington to Polk. 

70. Washington Heirs of George W. Mark, Greenfield. 

71. Washington; from a portrait by Sharpless. Presented by Washington 

to Colonel Tallmadge. 

72. Washington; by E. Savage. (See inscription.) 

Hon. Clarke Jilson, Worcester. 

73. John Quincy Adams, President U. S. A. 

74. Two Pictures of William Henry Harrison, one of 1812, the other 

of 1840 Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

75. John Adams George Sheldon. 

76. Andrew Jackson. Two Pictures. 

78. Thomas Jefferson. 

79. John Adams. 

80. Rev. Andrew Reed, London, Eng. 

81. Washington. 
82. 

83. 

84. William Henry Harrison Miss Abbie C. Sloan, Marion, Ohio. 

90. Old Divines. 

91. Luman Arms, born 1796, alive 1880. The last survivor of the colony 

of thirty-six who went from Bloody Brook to settle at Adams, N. Y., 
about 1834 Luman Arms, Adams, N. Y. 

92. Samuel C. Bowles. 

93. Abraham Lincoln. 

94. George Whitfield. 

95. Philip Doddridge, D. D. 

96. Carnot. 

97. Rev. Jesse Appleton. 

98. Hannah More. 

99. Joseph T. Buckingham, father of Rev. Edgar Buckingham. 
100. Washington and his Family. From the engraving of E. Savage. 

Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 



MEMORIAL ROOM 66 

Silhouettes 

110. John Sheldon, 1739-1806. Persis (Hoyt) Sheldon, 1747-1829. 

George Sheldon. 

111, 112. UnknowTi Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

113. Mr. and Mrs. Dorrick Smith Mrs. Lucy G. Childs. 

114. Unknown Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

115. Mary, daughter of Reuben Smith, 1777-1812 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

116. Mary Pierce of Woburn, aged nineteen. 

Samuel J. Green, Bernardston. 

117. William Rogers, aged 4 Same. 

118. Mary Rogers, aged 41 Same. 

119. Rev. Timothy F. Rogers, aged 47 Same. 

The above four were taken in 1828. 

120. Reuben Smith of Northfield, 1740-1832. Elizabeth, daughter of 

Ebenezer Lane, 1743-1829 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

121. David Hoyt, 1722-1814 Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

122. Unkno^vn Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

123. " Mrs. Lucy G. Childs. 

124. " Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

125. Mrs. Persis Sheldon, 1747-1829 George Sheldon. 

126. Miss Polly Sheldon, 1794-1814 Same. 

127. Mrs. David Hoyt Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

130. Silhouette Tracer James R. Long, Greenfield. 

140. Photograph of James S. Reed, Marion, Ohio, 1818-96. 

From his children. 

141. Engraving of President Edward Hitchcock, 1793-1864. 

Mrs. Emily H. Terry, Amherst. 

142. Photograph of Levi P. Morton, Vice President. Great-great-grand- 

son of Samson Frary, one of the first settlers of Deerfield. Mor- 
ton's grandmother was Electa Frary, a native of Deerfield. Given 
by his sister Mrs. Martha M. Hartpense, Philadelphia. 

143. Oil Portrait of Nathaniel Hitchcock, 1812-1900, by James W. 

Champney Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

144. Photograph of George Sheldon, taken by Miss Emma L. Coleman, 

1887 Miss C. Alice Baker. 

145. Portrait of Col. Horatio Hawks, lost at sea with steamer Melville, 

Jan. 8, 1865; born 1819 Edward A. Hawks. 

146. Rev. Hiram P. Arms, b. 1799. . .Rev. Hiram P. Arms, Norwich, Conn. 

147. Interior of a wagon shop in Deerfield with Ira Billings, the owner, 

working at the bench. Photographed from a painting by his 
son, Edward T. Billings of Boston. 

Hon. William W. Wright, Geneva, N. Y. 

150. Silhouette, unknown Samuel J. Green, Bernardston. 

151. Mary, daughter of Rev. Timothy Rogers of Bernardston Same. 

152. Silhouette, unknown Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

153. Jarvis Bardwell, 1802-1902, and wife, Emily Merrill. 

Samuel O. Lamb, Greenfield 



66 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

154. Mrs. Susan H. Fowler, Mountain Cottage, Orange Co., N. Y. Born at 
Vernon, Vt., 1794. Daughter of Squire Howe, an Indian captive, 
of 1755 Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

156. Oil Portrait of Rev. Edgar Buckingham, in 1839, at the age of twenty- 

five, by William S. Goodwin of Dover, N. H. 

Rev. Edgar Buckingham. 

157, 158. Oil Paintings of Roland and Polly Stebbins, son and daughter 

of Col. Asa Stebbins, both deaf and dumb John H. Stebbins. 

159. Original Oil Painting. Portrait of Rev. Dr. Stephen Williams, son of 

Rev. John Williams, born in Deerfield, May 14, 1693, taken cap- 
tive, Feb. 29, 1703-4; settled minister at Longmeadow, 1716; died 
June 10, 1782. This portrait descended from his daughter Martha, 
born 1733, married Dr. Samuel Reynolds of Enfield, Conn., to their 
son, Samuel, who married Lucy Pitkin; to their daughter, Lucy, 
who married John Root and moved to Greenwich, Mass., about 
1816; then to their son, the donor. Given Feb., 1889. 

Dea. Jabez Backus Root, Greenwich. 

160. Oil Painting of Ephraim Williams, 1760-1835, of Deerfield, father of 

Bishop Jolin Williams of Connecticut. He was the first reporter 
of the Massachusetts Supreme Court Est. of Bishop Williams. 

161. Photograph of Henry Childs, Buffalo, N. Y., born in Deerfield, 

July 18, 1819; died in Buffalo in 1885. 

Mrs. Elizabeth H. Childs, Buffalo, N. Y. 

162. Hon. Jonathan E. Field Rev. Dr. Robert Crawford, D. D. 

163. Photograph of Elihu S. Hawks J. L. Harrison, Albany, N. Y. 

164. Photograph of George W. Horr George W. Horr, Athol. 

165. Portrait of Hon. George Sheldon. Painted by the donor about 1882. 

James W. Champney. 

166. Photograph of Solomon Smead of Shelburne, 1792-1869, father of 

donor Elihu Smead, Newtonville. 

167. Steel Portrait of Rev. Dr. Titus Strong of Greenfield. 

Benjamin F. Popkins, Greenfield. 

168. Coat of Arms, Hoyt Family Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

169. George William Curtis. 

170. 171. Photographs of Thomas Williams, 1787-1869, and of Nancy 

Hawks, 1788-1860, his wife, of Willoughby, Ohio. Grand- 
parents of the donor Thomas H. Williams, Jackson, Mich. 

172. George A. Arms, Greenfield, 1815-97 From his daughters. 

173. Photograph of Charles Williams, 1798-1870. 

Mrs. Tirzah (Saxton) Williams, 1797-1893. 

174. Photograph of John G. Williams. 1805-72 Same. 

175. Portrait of Rev. Amariah Chandler, D. D., of Greenfield. 

Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

176. Portrait of Pres. Edward Hitchcock of Amherst College, born in 

Deerfield, 1793 Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

177. Mrs. Edward Hitchcock (Orra White). Wife of the above; married 

1821. 



MEMORIAL ROOM 67 

178. Dea. H jnry Hitchcock of Deerfield, 1783-1861 . 

Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

179. Photograph of Henry K. Hoyt, 1810-63 Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

180. Photograph of Joseph Octave Plessis, Archbishop of Quebec. Grand- 

son of Martha French, a Deerfield captive of 1704. 

Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

181. Portrait of Rhoda W. Smith of Northfield, at the age of nineteen. 

She married Henry Bardwell, Sept. 22, 1807. Mother of the donor. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

182. Photograph of Dea. Phinehas Field. 

Benjamin F. Popkins, Greenfield. 

183. Col. Elihu Hoyt, 1771-1833 . Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

184. Photograph of Rev. Dr. Robert Crawford. Rev. Dr. Robert Crawford. 

185. " " Henry Childs, Buffalo, N. Y. Born in Deerfield, 
July 18, 1819; died 1885 Mrs. Henry Childs, Buffalo, N. Y. 

186. Bishop Frederick Dan Huntington, born 1819. 

Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing, Brattleboro, Vt. 

187. Photograph of Capt. Isaac Corss (Corse), born in Deerfield, June. 

1777 Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers, Utica, N. Y. 

188. Picture of Luther B. Lincoln, Principal of Deerfield Academy. 

Est. of "Little Mary" Hawks. 
190. Bartlett Memorial George Sheldon. 

200. Piano and Stool. Bought by Pres. Edward Hitchcock for use in his 

growing family, about 1840. It was the second piano owned in 
Amherst. In 186- it passed to Alden Cooley for the use of his 
daughter, Jennie. From him, in 1864, it passed to his sister, Irene 
C, wife of Rev. Andrew B. Foster of Bernardston and Orange. It 
was used in this family by Miss Julia Wilkins, and given to her 
when she married the donor at Orange, in 1867. The cushion of 
the stool was embroidered by Miss Emily Hitchcock. 

Andrew J. Hamilton, Athol. 

201. Two Chairs, yellow, narrow seats Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

202. Rocking Chair, made for "Little Mary" Hawks. .Mrs. Mary W. Fogg. 

203. Flag-bottom Chair. Bought of E. Hinsdale Wilhams about 1833, by 

father of donor George Sheldon. 

204. Triangular Arm Chair Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

208. Sofa Mrs. Helen M. Stebbins. 

209. Rocking Chair. 

210. Chair, cane-seat, maple. Part of wedding outfit of Mrs. Susan 

(Steams) Sheldon George Sheldon. 

211. Arm Chair Dickinson Est. 

212. Covering on the above Chair Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

214. Carved Oak Chest James A. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

215. Oak Chest, marked R. A. (Rebecca Allis), born Apr. 16, 1683. 

married, Apr. 30, 1702, Nathaniel Graves. From this pair through, 
several generations on two lines of descent to the donor. 

Chester G. Crafts, Whately. 



68 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

216. Oak Cliest. Came down through several generations ot the Stebbins 
family, ancestors of the donor Mt)ses S. Ward. 

2lY. Chest of David Saxton, who lived in "The Little Brown House on the 
Albany Road." Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

218. Gravestone of a Child of Edmund and Priscilla Taylor, 1776, aged 

2 years, 7 mos. Found in the shop in Greenfield, when first oc- 
cupied by the donor Hopkins Wood, Greenfield. 

219. Edward Barney, 1822-1906 Mrs. Edward Barney, Denver, Colo. 

220. Portrait of Christopher A. Stebbins Charles H. Stebbins. 



DOMESTIC ROOM 

This room contains the home implements, by which our 
feminine ancestors deftly carded, spun and wove their clothing, 
and other textile materials. Every stage, from raw material 
to finished product, is represented here, and every article has 
done good service in its day. 

Nos. 1-30 exhibit the material and the implements necessary for the 
evolution of the raw flax to the finished cloth. 

1. Rotted Flax. Raised and prepared by Clarinda Field, 1767-1859, 

and her sister Marianna, 1772-1842, of Leverett. In the first stage 
for use Dea. Harrison O. Field, Leverett. 

2. Flax Brake, for breaking raw material. Made by Abel Dewolf, 

before 1802. Owned by Joseph Rice in 1802; his son Austin in 
1837; since by the donor Franklin Arms, Conway. 

3. Swingling Board Same. 

3^. Swingling Knife Moses Ward. 

4. Swingled Flax Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

5. Coarse Hatchel. Owned and branded with his initials by John Nims, 

1718-80 Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

6. Flax after Fifth Stage. 

7. Fine Hatchel William Riddell, Greenfield. 

8. Flax after Seventh Stage, ready for Spinning. 

9. Distaff with Dressed Flax Henry C. Haskell. 

10. Flax Wheel Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

11. Flyer. 

12. Linen Weaving Yarn Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

13. Bobbins Elisha Stratton, Northfield. 

14-20. For the Warp. 

14. Skarne. Used in holding spools for warping. 

John Montague, Sunderland. 

15. Warping Bars, now with cotton warp Same. 

16. Yarn Beam. 

17. Loom Harness McClellan Brothers. 

18. Batten. 

19. Sley or Reed John Luey, Shelbume. 

20. Old-fashioned House Loom. Belonged to the Smead family. Brought 

from Cornish, N. H Same. 

21-27. For the Woof. 



70 CATA1.0GUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

21. Clock Reel Mrs. Julia A. Allen. 

22. Skein of Filling. 

23. Weaving Quills Mrs. Pomeroy and Miss K. Pratt, Chicopee. 

24. Quill Wlieel. For spooling and quilling John Luey, Shelbume. 

25. Quill Box. ITsed by Mrs. Statira P. Stearns. 

Marshall S. Steams, Northfield. 

26. Swifts. Used by donor's mother George Sheldon. 

27. Shuttle Mrs. Clark D. Shearer, Colrain. 

28. Loom Temple John Montague, Sunderland. 

29. Cloth Beam. 

30. Linen Cloth George Sheldon. 

31. Loom Harness Frame McClellan Brothers. 

32. Needles. For knitting loom harness Henry Wells, Sholburne. 

33. Quill Basket John Montague, Smiderland. 

34. 35. Netting Needles George Sheldon. 

36. Netting Needle Henry Wells. Shelburne. 

37. Weaver's Pecker Pegs John Luey, Shelburne. 

38. Temple Same. 

39. Shuttle Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

40. " Mrs. Delancy C. Kimball, Leverett. 

41. Shuttles Misses Emilj^ and Fanny Hinsdale, Bemardston. 

42. Shuttle Henry Shepherd, Montague. 

43. Loom Pulleys John Luey, Shelbvn-ne. 

44. Spools. 

45. Spool Winder Joseph S. Clark. 

46. Tow Cloth George Sheldon. 

47. Netting Needles Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

55. Dressed Flax, before putting on the distaff. (See No. 9.) 

56. Linen Thread Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

57. " " Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

58. Linen Woof. The work of Hannah Learned Giles of New Salem, 1776- 

1860, great grandmother of the donor Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

70. Reel George Sheldon. 

71. Clock Reel Frank Childs. 

72. " " Cephas G. Clapp. 

73. " " Mrs. Edward W. Stebbins. 

75. Swifts Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

76. Quill Wheel, novel pattern Mrs. Nancy A. Chapin, Gill. 

77. Reel. 

79. Hand-reel or Niddy-Noddy Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

80. Niddy-Noddy. This reel was brought from Ireland in 1733, by Hugh 

Maxwell, father of Colonel Maxwell, of Revolutionary fame. Emi- 
grants were not allowed to bring manufacturing implements with 
them, and this was taken to pieces and smuggled in under a woman's 
garments Miss Louisa Rice, Charlemont. 

81. Niddy-Noddy. Marked N. M. (Nabby Marshall), born in 1755, died 

in 1859, 104 years old Mrs. Samuel L. Taylor, South Wellfleet. 



DOMESTIC ROOM 71 

84. Hammer Reel Mrs. Matthew Smith. 

85. Flax Wheel Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

86. Double-flyer Flax Wheel. For spinning two threads at once. Unique. 

Col. Thomas W. Ripley, Greenfield. 

87. Flax Wheel. 

88. " " Henry C. Haskell. 

91. Blades or Swifts Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

92. Worsted Combs Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

93. " " Charles Wells, Shelburne. 

95. Dressed Flax Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer, Colrain. 

96, 98. " " Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield, 

99. Hank of Flax Mrs. Susan Dike Marsh, Northfield. 

100. Tow Yarn Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

101. " " Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

104. Flyers Henry C. Haskell. 

106. Fine Linen Hatchel. Smuggled from Ireland. 

William Riddell, Greenfield. 

107. Hatchel Heirs of John Wilson. 

Mrs. Melly A. Hatch, Detroit, Mich. 



108. 
109. 
110. 
111. 
113. 



Marked C. D Consider Dickinson. 

Col. Roger H. Leavitt, Charlemont. 

George Sheldon. 

114. Old Chest Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

115. Hatchel. Marked Z. Hawks Mrs. Melly H. Hatch, Detroit, Mich. 

116. " Marked S. S. (Seth Sheldon) George Sheldon. 

117. " Col. Roger H. Leavitt, Charlemont. 

118. " Dwight L. Howland, Greenfield. 

119. 120. Hatchels Louis A. Phillips. 

121. Family Press Board. 

122. Family Goose, Iron Joseph Robbins. 

125. Swingling Knife. "Uncle Bill" Russell's Mary R. Nims. 

126. " " George H. Wilhams. 

127. " " Franklin Arms, Conway. 

128. Distaf? (for linen lawn). 

130-139. Wheel Heads. Sundry Patterns Sundry Donors. 

142. Chest. In which was kept an old military hbrary of Deerfield in the 

eighteenth century George Sheldon. 

143-150. Hand Stamps for Pi-inting Calico. . .James Robinson, Greenfield. 

151. Hand Stamp for Printing Calico. 

152. Small Hand Calico Stamp for a Comer Mrs. Jolm Liston. 

153. 154. Hand Calico Stamps. From the Old Indian House. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 
155, 156. Hand Cahco Stamps Mrs. Silas Smith. 

157. Small Pattern of Great Wheel. Made for " Little Mary" Hawks. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

158. Great or Wool Wheel Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 



72 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

159. Wheel Finger Same. 

160. Great Wheel Mrs. Lena L. Boyden, Conway. 

161. Wheel Head Same. 

162. Great Wheel Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

163. Wheel Head. 

164. Great Wheel Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

165. Wheel Finger Mrs. Samuel Hastings. 

166. Wheel Portion of a Great Wheel. Large Size. 

Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

167. Great Wheel, about 1730 Uriah N. Streeter, Greenfield. 

170. Tape Loom Mrs. Julia Long and son, James A., Greenfield. 

171. " " Used by Mrs. Judith Bardwell, 1777-1849, and Mrs. Anna 

Williams, 1770-1852 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

172. Wool Cards Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer, Colrain. 

173. " " Mrs. Direxa Nims. 

174. " " Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

175. " " Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

176. " " Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

177. " " Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

180. Specimen of Wainscot, curiously ornamented with birds, etc., which 

lined one room of the old Wood or Lyon Tavern in Colrain. 

Washington Miller, Colrain. 

181 . Piece of a Carpet which was made for Charlemont Church in 1845. 

Mrs. David S. Thayer, East Charlemont. 

182. Spinning Machine Charles Wells, Shelburne. 

183. Chair Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

184. Stalk of Hemp with leaves and seeds from Kentucky, 1906. 

Miss Margaret Goff, Winchester, Ky. 

185. Loom Beam of Oak with brass plate, bearing inscription. (See label.) 

Mrs. Fanny B. Shippee, Shelburne. 



LIBRARY 

1. Capture of H. M. S. Java by U. S. Frigate Constitution. 

George W. Mark, Greenfield. 

2. Combat between the Constitution and the Guerricre Same. 

3. Autograph of Paul Revere, 1765. Bill to Joseph Barnard for silver 

tankard Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

4. Framed Photograph of Wreck of .\ncient Vessel, the Sparrow-Hawk. 

Sunk off Orleans, Mass., in 1626. Discovered, 1S65. 

George F. Richardson, Montague. 

5. Piece of Wood from the Sparrow-Hawk Same. 

6. Commission. Gov. James Sullivan to Rev. Jonathan Grout, chaplain 

of the 5th Regiment, Mass. Militia, 1807. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

7. Hatfield Tax Levy, 1747 Henry C. Haskell. 

8. Port7-ait of Christopher Burchard. Old copper plate engraving. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

9. Broadside Memorial of Washington Est. John G. Williams. 

10. Map of Northern Department North .\merica. 

Oliver Ellsworth Himtington. Cleveland, Ohio. 

13. St. Botolph's Town George Sheldon. 

14. Framed U. S. Direct Tax Receipt, 1814 Solon S. Wiley, Greenfield. 

15. U. S. Fractional Currency. Twenty-five cent piece, 1863. 

Mrs. Lucy C. Kimball, Holyoke. 

18. Yorktown Battle Ground George Sheldon. 

19. Facsimile of Twenty Shilling piece. Earliest paper money in America. 

Bill on Massachusetts Treasury, 1690 Oren Wiley, Greenfield. 

20. Twig and Rag from the Grave of Polycarp, near Smyrna. (See label.) 

Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

21. Framed French Engraving, 1732 C. Mason Moody, Greenfield. 

22. Fort Duquesne George Sheldon. 

23. Maj. Gen. John Stark Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

24. Ticonderoga George Sheldon. 

27. Declaration of Independence. Facsimile of the original document in 

the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

28. Receipt for Legacy, 1791. From Madame Abigail Silliman, daughter 

of Rev. John Williams, to Bunker Gay Williams Papers.^ 

' "Williams Papers " in this catalogue refers to MS. documents Tfound in the Wilson 
garret where they were left by "Esq. John Williams, grandson of the Redeemed Cap- 
tive," at his death in 1816. Now deposited in this library. 



74 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

29. Receipt from U. S. Inspector to Theodore Barnard for taxes, 1800. 

Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

30. Autograph Receipt for Money. Gov. Thomas Hutchinson to Eben- 

ezer Hinsdale, 1749 WiUiams Papers. 

31. Picture Charter Oak. 

34. Autograph Daniel Gookin. Court order, 1664 Williams Papers. 

35. Copy of Ezekiel Cheever's Letter to Mr. Ezekiel Rogers. Copied by 

himself, Feb. 26, 1665. Cheever was the first schoolmaster in 
Boston Williams Papers. 

36. Autograph Petition of Hatfield Men to certain military officers, praying 

for instructions, in 1774. Whig vs. Tory. 

Hon. Samuel D. Partridge, Milwaukee, Wis. 

37. License to Theodore Barnard to sell tea, 1782, in town of Shelburne. 

Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

39. Cane. Made from wood of Old InH.ian House. 

Heirs of Col. Jolm Wilson. 

40. Cane. Marked J. R. B. to J. H. C Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. 

41. Cane. During the War of 1812, Col. John Wilson and Maj. George 

Arms were called to Canada on business. Owing to a misunder- 
standing they were arrested and imprisoned as spies and nearly lost 
their lives. This cane was given to Colonel Wilson by Major Arms 
on his death bed, as a memento, it having been cut during their 
visit to Canada and brought home by Major Arms. 

Heirs of Col. Jolin Wilson. 

42. Cane * 

43. " * 

44. " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

45. " of Manzanita Wood. Cut by the donor on the Sierra Nevada 

Mountains Maj. Putnam Field, San Diego, Cal. 

46. Stiletto Cane John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 

47. Cane. From Acadia; showing the work of the teredo or " shipworm." 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

48. Cane of Pepper Wood Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

49. Curious Crooked Cane. Made by "Uncle Sid." Dickinson Est. 

50. Cane. Carried by Lieut. John Bardwell after being wounded at 

Bunker Hill Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

51. " Carried by "Uncle Bill" Russell Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

52. " Five inscriptions, " 1732 to 1881." William Lawrence. 

53 " * 

54. " Made and carried by Dea. Justin Hitchcock (1752-1822), 

grandfather of the donor Justin B. Hitchcock. 

55. " Dickinson Est. 

57. " Bone headed; made about 1770 by Jonathan Smead of Green- 

field. Given by his great-grandson. 

Jonathan H. Smead, New Beilford. 

58. " Presented the donor by Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. 

George Sheldon. 



LIBRARY 75 

64. Cane. Belonged to Madame Silliman, daughter of Rev. John Wil- 
Hams, 1708-87 Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

69. Tithing-man's Rod. Used by that official to keep order in meeting. 

Had a hare's tail on one end, and paw on the other. 

Mrs. Horace A. Smead, Greenfield. 

70. Water Color Miniature. 

71. Photograph of the Monument at Saratoga to Commemorate the Sur- 

render of Burgoyne's Army to the Americans, Oct. 17, 1777. 

72. Brass-headed Shovel and Tongs George Sheldon. 

73. " " " Same. 

74. Brass Jamb Hook, 1770. Owned by Daniel Conant. 

Mrs. Delancy C. Kimball, Leverett. 

75. Pair of Bellows. Belonged to Mrs. Catherine A. Stearns, Dummers- 

ton, Vt George Sheldon. 

76. Curtain Knob Rev. Jolm P. Watson, South Wellfleet. 

77. Hearth Brush. Belonged to Mrs. Catherine Knapp Alexander of 

Charlestown Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

80. Pair Silver Plated Candlesticks Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

81. Piece of the Ptock on which Roger Williams stepped when he landed 

in Rhode Island in 1636 Caroline Childs. 

82. Pocket Inkstand George Sheldon. 

83. Soapstone Inkstand. 

84. Feather Fan. Made by donor James Smith, Whately. 

85. Wafer Box. 

86. Wooden Sand Box Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

87. Old Dutch Writing Stand. See paper describing same. 

Rev. Edgar Buckingham. 

88. Inkstand Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

89. Taper Stand and Match-safe Combined. From wreck of ship Franklin, 

off Cape Cod Joseph Boynton, South Wellfleet. 

90. Octagonal Tin Sand Box Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

91. Hour Glass Alfred Cobb. 

92. Inkstand Miss EUzabeth Purple, Northfield. 

93. Pocket Inkstand. Belonged to Samuel Montague. 

Mrs. Delancy C. Kimball, Leverett. 

94. Wooden Sand Box George Sheldon. 

95. Square Lead Inkstand. Marked DS — IS Same. 

96. Pocket Inkstand with Pen Case Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

97. Horn Inkstand Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

98. Book-shaped Writing Case. Marked S. B. W. to S. W. 

Sarah J. Willard, Hingham. 

99. Slate Inkstand. 

100. Inkstand and Quills Miss Ehzabeth Purple, Northfield. 

101. Tin Sand Box Samuel J. Green, Bernardston. 

103. Pickwick for Oil Lamp Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing. 

104. Bunch of Quills. From the old Ware store stock. . . .George Sheldon. 

105. Pair of Silver Plated Candlesticks. 



76 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

106. Pickwick. In a turned wccden stand. Obtained at the house of 

"Lord Timothy Cexter" at Newburyport, by James Parton, the 
author, and by him given to the donor. 

C. A. Quincy Norton, M. D., ? 

107. Longmeadow Souvenir Plate, 1906. .Longmeadow Historical Society. 

108. Plan of Deerfield Cemetery, east of Town street, and record of burials 

begun by Rev. John Taylor in 1803 Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

109. Plan of Seating the Meetinghouse, Deerfield, 1783. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

110. Sundial, used on a window sill at the old Sheldon house. 

George Sheldon. 

111. Copy of the only portrait ever painted from life of William Penn. In 

Franklin's newspaper — "The Pennsylvania Gazette." 

112. Original Minutes of Deerfield Town Meeting, 1729. . .Williams Papers. 

113. Letter to Capt. John Euik in Colonel Dwight's Regiment in the 

Crown Point Army, frcm his wife, 1756. 

Mrs. E. L. Burk, Bernardston. 

114. Bond. Zur Hawks to the Trustees of Deerfield Academy, in 1797, 

for the payment of his subscription to the Academy fund. 

Miss Millicent Hawks. 

115. Picture. Lake George. 

118. Arm Chair. Frcm Old Indian House Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt.. 

119. Fac-Simile. Benedict Arnold's Pass to "John Anderson" (Major 

Andr6), 1780 Oren Wiley, Greenfield. 

120. Profile Sketch of Seth Sheldon after death, 1860, by Augustus Fuller. 

George Sheldon. 

121. Broadside. An account of the opening of Charlestown bridge. In- 

corporated Mar. 9, 1785. 

Oliver Ellsworth Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

122. Inside Cornice. From Old Indian House. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoj-t. 

123. Framed Photograph of Old Smead House. 

Thomas H. Williams, Jackson, Mich. 

124. Declaration of Independence. Printed on copper. 

Mrs. Catherine Upham, Cambridge. 

125. Portrait of Rev. Bernard Witman. From the library of Rev. 

Timothy Rogers Samuel J. Green, Bernardston. 

126. The Nicene Creed Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

127. Portrait of Col. Elihu Hoyt. Born Apr. 25. 1771; married Dec. 1 1, 

1794; died Sept. 3, 1833 Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

128. Deed by Rev. John Williams, of one-half of two Islands Granted him 

by the Town, to John Sheldon. Date, Mar. 24, 1712-13. 

George Sheldon. 

129. Autograph Letter. Stephen Williams to Ebenezer Silliman, 1733. 

Williams Papers. 

130. Letter. Mrs. Esther (Mather) Stoddard, mother of Eunice WiUiams, 

to her grandson. Mar. 24, 1706 Same. 



LIBRARY 77 

131. Autograph Letter. Sarah Williams to Stephen Williams, Sept. 9, 

1714 Charles M. Taintor, North Manchester, Conn. 

132. Indian Deed. Masseamet, alias Milkenaway, to John Pynchon, 

June 13, 1667 Town of Dedham. 

133. Indian Deed. Ahimunquat, alias Mequinnitchall, to John Pj^Tichon 

and others, July 22, 1667 Same. 

134. Letter. Rev. Jolin Williams to his son Stephen at Longmeadow, 

Mar. 22, 1719-20 Charles M. Taintor, North Manchester, Conn. 

135. Autograph Letter. Abigail Williams, widow of Rev. John Williams, 

to her son Stephen. Aug. 5, 1729 Same. 

136. Autograph Letter. Esther Williams, daughter of Rev. John Wil- 

hams to her brother, Stephen, at Roxbury, Sept. 16, 1707. 

Williams Papers. 

137. Appointment of Samuel Taylor and Eleazar Hawks as Guardians of 

Thankful and Thomas Taylor, 1731-32. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

138. The Dedliam Proprietors of Deerfield in 1671. Many autographs not 

found elsewhere Williams Papers. 

139. Deed. Land in Deerfield Street. Peter Plympton of Hatfield to 

James Brown of Springfield, 1681 Oren Wiley, Greenfield. 

140. Lieutenant's Commission, of Richard Rock, 1st Regt. Infantry, 

District of Columbia, 1819. James Monroe, President; J. C. Cal- 
houn. Secretary of War Mrs. Caroline E. Furbush, Greenfield. 

141. Ensign's Commission, of Richard Rock, 1st Regt. of Infantry of 

Mihtia in District of Columbia, 1816. James Madison, President, 
and W. H. Crawford, Secretary of War Same. 

142. Commission. Gov. Thomas Hutchinson to Moses Field, as ensign in 

Captain Stratton's Company, Col. Israel Williams' Regiment, 1773. 
Also in the same frame ten pieces of Continental money. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

143. Commission. Gov. Francis Bernard to Salah Barnard, as major in 

Sir Richard Saltonstall's Regiment, 1761 George Sheldon. 

144. Military Orders. Col. Samuel Partridge in 1754-55. 

Samuel D. Partridge, Milwaukee, Wis. 

145. Commission. Gov. John Hancock to Joseph Stebbins, as lieutenant 

colonel in Col. Hugh McClellan's regiment Frank W. Stebbins. 

146. Deed. Land in Hatfield. Samuel Partridge to Samuel Dickinson, 1675. 

147. Autograph, Samuel Adams. Instructions to Deerfield regarding elec- 

tion of Representatives to Congress, 1799 Charles Jones. 

148. Photograph. Oldest house in New Canaan, Conn. Built by Samuel 

Carter in 1724-26. Carter was of Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704. 

Mrs. Corneha C. Comstock, New York. 

149. Commission. Governor Belcher to Ebenezer Hinsdale, to be chaplain 

at Fort Dummer, 1740 Williams Papers. 

150. " Melancholy Shipwreck." Poem by Thomas Shaw. A framed 

Broadside with a vignette of 16 coffins. It is a description of 
the wreck of the Schooner Charles in Portland Harbor, in 1807, 



78 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

with the loss of 16 persons. Rare. Mr. WiUiamson could find no 
copy for his Bibliography of Maine. . . .E. A. Pressons, Greenfield. 

159. Framed Copy "Boston Gazette and Country Journal," 1770. 

Albert Clarence Hoyt, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

160. Framed Copy "New York Morning Post," 1783 Same. 

161. Copy of Letter from Christopher Columbus. Taken from "London 

Evening Post," Jan. 27, 1776. 

162. Copy of Letter sent to Lord North by Plenipotentiaries of the 

United States of America, Dec. 12, 1777, in the "Connecticut 
Courant" of May 26, 1778. 

163. " New England Weekly Journal," Apr. 8, 1728. 

164. Framed Record of Bernardston town meeting, Dec. 6, 1773. Votes 

about moving and finishing the meetinghouse. 

Edward J. Carpenter, Brattleboro, Vt. 

165. Original Will of Samuel Field, 1733. . . .Rodney B. Field, Guilford, Vt. 

166. A Copy of the First Issue of "The Connecticut Fifth," a newspaper 

published in Winchester, Va., by Curtis B. Wells of Deerfield, a 
member of the 5th Conn. Regiment, just after the capture of that 
place, Mar. 13, 1862. It was issued from a rebel office. 

Mrs. Helen M. Field, Conway. 

167. Copy of Act of Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1733, au- 

thorizing Thomas Wells to call the first meeting of the grantees of 
Falls Fight Township, now Bernardston. 

Rodney B. Field, Guilford, Vt. 

168. Engraving. Nightmare John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 

169. Key to the Old Court House in Greenfield, 1849-72. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

170. Key to the Old Corner Store. Elijah Williams, 1742. George Shel- 

don, 1877 George Sheldon. 

171. Photograph of Bust of President Edward Hitchcock. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

172. Framed Photograph of Members of United States Senate, 1859. 

John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 

173. Picture of Four Members of Committee on Towns, Massachusetts 

Legislature, 1888 Henry C. Haskell. 

174. Picture of the Allen Homestead at the Bars, 1739. Studio of the late 

George Fuller Miss Ehza Allen Starr, Chicago. 

175. Printed Elegj'. On Dr. Thomas Hastings of Hatfield by Joscphus 

Nash, 1728 Mrs. Dexter Allis, Springfield. 

176. Portrait of John Langdon Sibley Hon. Samuel A. Green, Boston. 

177. Certificate of Membership in American Missionarj' Association. Given 

to the donor, Aug. 17, 1865 Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

178. Photograph of Pen Sketches. The Deerfield Meetinghouse. From 

the fly-leaf of the journal of two Harvard students, on a journey 
from Cambridge to Deerfield, in 1729. 

Hon. Samuel A. Green, Boston. 

179. Portrait of Christopher Columbus. 



LIBRARY 79 

180. Morocco Trunk. Containing papers of Col. Elihu Hoyt, 1777-1833. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

181. Old Trunk. Containing Hoyt papers. Marked E. H. (Elihu Hoyt). 

Same. 

182. Ornamented Morocco Trimk for Family Papers. Owned and used by 

Ebenezer Hinsdale Williams, 1761-1838; Henry Bardwell, 1767- 
1827 and the donor, his daughter, 1812-89 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

183. Trunk. Marked P. W. Containing papers on Town and Proprietors' 

affairs. 

184. Ancestral Trunk. Marked E. T William O. Taylor, Shelbume. 

185. Leather Tnmk. Belonged to Ohve (Winter) Anderson, Shelbume, 

1763-1850, grandmother of the donor. 

Mrs. Olive Whiter Anderson Cole, Springfield. 

186. Trunk, black, with brass nails. 

187. Wooden Box or Trunk with Iron Hasp. Marked H. H. C. on the 

inside. 

188. Drawer from Highboy, containing bones from Indian graves on home 

lot of George Sheldon, etc. 

189. Application of Hadley. For the appointment of Commissioners, 

1663, wath action thereon. Original Manuscript framed with old 
marbled paper George Sheldon. 

190. Mutilated Document of William Penn, Apr. 1683, on parchment. 

191. Portfolio of Stencils. For wall decoration, fire boards, etc. 

Est. John G. WiUiams. 

192. Photograph of Caleb A. Starr Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

193. Globe, used in teaching by Miss Catherine Ehzabeth Bardwell, the 

donor Mrs. C. E. Bardwell Allen. 

194. Daguerreotype of Old Indian House. By Benjamin F. Popkins, 1848. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

195. Letters Patent. With great seal of Great Britain, to John P. Lindsay. 

James S. Grinnell, Greenfield. 

196. Photographs of Paintings of the British soldiers in Concord, Apr. 19, 

1775 A. W. Hosmer, Concord. 

197. Photographs of Paintings of the British Soldiers in the Fight at Con- 

cord Bridge Same. 

198. Revolutionary Broadside, Sept. 23, 1777. 

Oliver Ellsworth Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

199. Old Pocket Book. With family papers. In tin trunk (No. 200). 

Upton Family, Charlemont. 

200. Tin Trunk. Referred to in No. 199 with pocket books and daguerreo- 

types. 

201. Fan from India Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

Nos. 202-214 are to be foimd in trunk 182. 

202. A Jack of Diamonds. Reverse, printed invitation to Victory Ball, 

1813 Mrs. Martha B. Day, Jacksonville, HI. 

203. Invitation to Ball, June 13, 1803 Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

204. Ball Cards, etc George Sheldon. 



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205. Ball Cards, etc Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

206. Invitation to New Year's Ball, 1834 Justin B. Hitchcock. 

207. " " Thanksgiving Ball, Nov. 14, 1838. . . .John G. Williams. 

208. " " National Ball, Feb. 25, 1841 Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

209. " " Washington Ball, Feb. 12, 1844 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

210. " " " " Feb. 18, 1844. 

-Alfred R. Goodrich, Vernon, Conn. 

211. " " •' " Feb. 25, 1844 Justin B. Hitchcock. 

212. " " Cheapside Celebration Ball, Mar. 14, 1861. 

George Sheldon. 

213. Invitation to 250th Commemoration of the Founding of First Church 

in Boston Miss Emma L. Coleman, Boston. 

214. Invitation to Exhibition Ball. Given by students of Deerfield 

Academy, Mar. 26, 1799; and another. Mar. 26, 1805. Printed on 
the back of playing cards Joel B. Swett, Rochester, N. Y. 

220. Family Register. Rev. Jonathan Leavitt, b. 1731; settled in Wal- 

pole, N. H., 1761; in Charlemont, 1768. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

221. Certificate of Membership of Col. Elihu Hoyt in the Bunker Hill 

Association. (Facsimile.) Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

222. Three Autographs of Rev. Jolm Williams. 

Edward O. Walcott, U. S. Senator of Colorado. 

223. Appointment of Thomas Wells of Deerfield as administrator on 

the estate of his brother, Lieut. John Wells, who was killed by 
Indians, May, 1709, while on a scout towards Canada. 

Williams Papers. 

224. Commission. Gov. Sir Edmund Andros to Thomas Wells, as lieuten- 

ant in Colonel Pynchon's Regiment of Militia, 1686. 

George Sheldon. 

225. Deed. John Stoddard to Zecheriah Field and Orlando Bridgeman, in 

1729 Thomas J. Field, Northfield. 

226. Framed Broadside. Issued after the Battle of Lexington. The 

coffins of the victims as a heading. . .Samuel J. Green, Bemardston. 

227. Inventory of Military Stores in 1747, by William Williams. 

Williams Papers. 

228. Fragment of the Original Plan. Made by the Dedham " Artiste," who 

surveyed Pocumtuck in 1070. It shows North Meadows and part 
of the Town Plot Old Town Papers. 

229. " A List of The men Belonging to Deerfield who were Employed under 

the Command of Lieut Jonathan Hoyt July 15, 1748 to go and 
Drive off The Enemy and Bury The Dead men of Major Willards 
Company Killed between Hinsdells Fort & Dummer as also the 
Dead men of Capt Hobbs Company: who were out upon said 
Service Seven Days and found Themselves and Horses." 

W. F. Havemeyer, New York. 

230. Picture of the House of James Rising and Abigail Nims in Canada, two 

captives of 1704 Miss C. .\lice Baker, Cambridge. 



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231. Piece of Wood from this House Same. 

232. Autograph Letter. Rev. Jolin WiUiams to his son Stephen at Rox- 

bury, May 24, 1707 WiUiams Papers. 

233. Soldiers' Receipts for Wages. June 14, 1760. Ticonderoga. Many 

autographs George Sheldon. 

234. George Sheldon's Certificate of Membership to Buffalo Historical 

Society Same. 

236. Old Parsonage, West Haven, Conn. 

237. Sir Richard Saltonstall's House, Ipswich, in 1635. 

238. Certificate of Membership. Massachusetts Home Missionary Society. 

Henry Hitchcock, 1845 Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

239. Facsimile Map of New England. Supposed to be originally published 

in 1635. Reprint by U. S. War Department, 1876. George Sheldon. 

240. Old Meetinghouse at Hingham. Built, 1681. The oldest in the 

United States, in continued occupancy. 

Mrs. Lucinda Alexander, Montague. 

241. Photograph. Old Indian House. Framed from the "Meeting Oak" 

in Northfield, where William Janes preached to the first settlers, 
in 1671; burned down in 1869. .Miss Mary T. Stratton, Northfield. 

242. Two Views of Buffalo, N. Y Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

243. Picture of Great Elm. Boston Common. .Miss Ellen Kimball, Boston. 

244. Play Bills, Boston Theatre George Sheldon. 

245. Photograph of Monument to Stockbridge Indians. (See legend.) 

Miss C. Alice Baker. 

246. "The Iris " for 1840, by Mary Russell Mitford. Found in the ruins of 

the Post Office at Boston the day after the great fire, 1872. 

George Sheldon. 

248. Photograph of Dr. Jonathan Swett Joel B. Swett, Rochester, N. Y. 

249. Water Color Pictures of Jonathan Swett and of his wife, Clarissa 
p^ Hitchcock, born 1781, in Deerfield. (In Box 257.) Same. 

255. Portfoho of large miscellaneous pictures. 

256. " small 

257. Box Portfolio of miscellaneous pictures. 

258. Small green box — Deerfield pictures. 

259. Portfolio of Photographs. 

Miss C. Ahce Baker and Miss Emma L. Coleman, Boston. 

260. Photograph of Mrs. Lucinda S. Howard, daughter of Jeremiah 

Sheldon. Taken on her 100th birthday, Aug. 7, 1883. 

Mrs. A. G. Carter, Wobum. 

262. Sketch of Third Meetinghouse of Deerfield. . . .Mrs. Lucretia W. Eels. 

263. Large Silhouettes from Garret of donor George Sheldon. 

264. Photograph of Rev. Ezra Ripley of Concord. Settled in 1778, 

preached after he was 91 George B. Bartlett, Concord. 

265. Cover of Book. Binding of the sixteenth century. 

Mrs. Ryland Warriner, New York. 
269. Thirteen Engravings belonging to Dexter Marsh of Greenfield. 

George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 



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270. Tin Trunk for Newspapers. Centennial and other noted events. 

Luther J. B. Lincoln, New York. 

272. Tzi-kal-tza. An Indian Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

273. Photograph of Zie Wie, an Indian girl, aged fifteen, Hampton, Va., 

Nov., 1878 Miss Maria J. Marshall, Weston. 

274. Small Tin Trunk with miscellaneous papers. 

John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 

277. Photographs of Henry Childs, 1785-1869, and wife, Catherine, 1795- 

1870 Charles H. Stebbins. 

284. Red Chair. Belonged to wife of Dr. Jolm Brooks of Bernardston, 

at marriage, about 1809 Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

285. Chair. Used by Mrs. Anna Bardwell in the old Montague meeting- 

house . Mrs. Sophia Hanson Boyden, Shelburne. 

286. Chair. From the old meetinghouse in Deerfield. Rev. Rodolphus 

Dickinson, when a boy, fired a stray bullet through the meeting- 
house window, which cut off one of the knobs.. .Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

287. Black Arm Chair. OwTied by Dr. Elijah W. Carpenter of Bernard- 

ston. Hole through one arm Charles H. Tyler, Greenfield. 

288. Arm Chair Col. Thomas W. Ripley, Greenfield. 

289. Old Anderson Chair with a pedigree. (See label.) 

Mrs. Olive Winter (Anderson) Cole, Springfield. 

290. Chair Quintus Allen, Greenfield. 

291. Desk Stool of Rev. Roger Newton, the second minister of Greenfield. 

James R. Long, Greenfield. 

292. Chair, semicircular George Sheldon. 

293. Book Rests used by Rev. Roger Newton. .James R. Long, Greenfield. 

294. Red Arm Chair Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

295. Black Arm Chair. Bow-topped. . . .Jason B. Woodbury, Sunderland. 

296. Wooden Chair. Very old pattern. Probably belonged to Rev. 

Jonathan Ashley Elisha Wells. 

297. Chair. Elm bark seat, four cross slats Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

298. Chair. Three cornered, black. Belonged to Ebenezer Saxton, 1766- 

1847. From "The Little Brown House on the Albany Road." 

Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

299. Table. From " an old Albany family." George Sheldon. 

300. " Hundred-legged " Table. 

303. Mitchell's Map of the United States, 1845. 

Sylvester L. Monnicr, Greenfield. 

304. Pen Sketch of Third Meetinghouse in Deerfield with enlargement by 

Mrs. Lucretia W. Eels. (See 178.) Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

305. Picture of Brick Meetinghouse of Deerfield, 1824. 

Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing, Brattleboro, Vt. 

306. Picture of Deerfield Academy about 1850. Now Memorial Hall. 

Same. 

307. Portfolio of Photographs. Illustrating places and people of Old Deer- 

field, taken by the donors Frances S. and Mary E. Allen. 

308. North Carolina Currency, 1862-66. .Rev. A. B. Hunter, Raleigh, N. C. 



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309. Confederate Bills and Script D. A Barnard, Windsor, Vt. 

310. Continental Bill. One-third Dollar George Sheldon. 

310J. " " Two-thirds Dollar Same, 

311. " " One Dollar Irving L. Wrisley. 

For a miscellaneous collection of Continental bills, see L142. 

312. Six Pence from Office of State Treasurer, Hartford, Conn. 

Mrs. S. M. Stone, New York City. 

313. " Butler Money." 

314. Confederate Money and Bonds. 

315. Old Bank Bills. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Himtington, Cleveland, Ohio, and others. 

316. Confederate Bills, $5, $10, $50 William C. Ross, Montague. 

317. Confederate Bill, $5 S. N. Stevens, Milford, N. H. 

318. Two one dollar bills on Franklin Bank, Greenfield. 

Est. Charles Jones, Mary Toombs, Executor. 

319. Seals. From the office of Eugene Stone, U. S. Consul in Mexico. 

Miss Martha E. Stone, Newton Centre. 

320. Autograph of Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr. and Pen with which he signed the 

Act to establish the Mt. Sugar Loaf State Reservation. 

Thomas Rotch. 

321. Mourners at the Tomb of Washington. 

Mrs. Abbie H. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

322. Certificate of membership of Charles Jones in Pilgrim Society, 1871. 

Est. Charles Jones. 



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REVOLUTIONARY GROUP 

1. Flint Lock Musket. Carried in the Revolutionary War by Col. Hugh 

Maxwell of Heath, the maternal grandfather of the donor. 

Col. Roger H. Leavitt, Charlemont. 

2. Photograph of Pay Roll. Col. Hugh McClellan's Co. in Col. David 

Wells's Regiment, which took part in the capture of Burgoyne in 
1777 Charles H. McClellan, Greenfield. 

3. Honorable^ Discharge from Revolutionary Army. Thaddeus Brooks, 

N. Y., June 30, 1784. 

4. Bullet Pouch Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

5. Sword. Carried by Captain Cook of Hadley, in Revolutionary War, 

probably at Bunker Hill. Given to donor by a great-grandson, 
Charles Jilson Azariah Boyden. 

6. English Gun. Found by the great-grandfather of the donor, Capt. 

John Fellows of Shelburne, on the field of Saratoga, after the sur- 
render of Burgoyne. Tower mark on lock, with crown and G. R.; 
on the stock is pricked R. D. 1777. I. F. on brass plate. 

John Fellows, Shelburne. 

7. Cartridge Box Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

8. Washington Crossing the Delaware George Sheldon. 

9. Sword. Carried at Bunker Hill by Capt. Joseph Stebbins, grandfather 

of the donor James Stebbins. 

10. Iron-hiked Revolutionary Sword. Owned by Gen. Epaphras Hoyt. 

William P. Saxton. 

11. Commission. Lieut. Noah Bardwell. Revolutionary Army, Apr., 

1776. Autographs of Massachusetts Committee of Safety, who 
were charged by the people with the direction of the Provincial Gov- 
ernment Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

12. Commission. Capt. Joseph Stebbins, July 1, 1775. Autograph John 

Hancock, President Continental Congress. Stebbins had command 
of a company at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.. .Frank W. Stebbins. 

13. Brass Candlestick. Taken at Burgoyne's surrender, Saratoga, Oct. 17, 

1777. Brought home by Colonel Maxwell, grandfather of the 
donor Miss Louisa Rice, Charlemont. 

14. Elegy on Washington Mrs. Nancy D. Campbell. 

15. Burgoyne's Towel. The tradition therewith, is that at the surrender, 

Oct. 17, 1777, his linen was divided among the American officers. 



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This towel fell to the share of Capt. Joseph Stebbins. From a 
granddaughter Mrs. Eliza B. Fithian, St. Louis, Mo. 

16. Canteen. Used in the Revolutionary Army. 

Mrs. H. B. Clark, Erving. 

17. Boston Massacre, Mar. 5, 1770. King Street (now State Street). En- 

graved by Paul Revere. 

Oliver Ellsworth Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

18. Autograph Letters, 1777. Ebenezer Maynard, William Bancroft, 

Joseph Rice, to their families, from the seat of war, near Fort 
Edward. 

19. Piece of Homemade Linen. From the Revolutionary flag of Colonel 

Maxwell. Also one of the thirteen stars from the same. 

Miss Abby Maxwell, Charlemont. 

20. Muster Roll. Of Col. Hugh McClellan's Colrain Minute Men, Apr. 20, 

1775 Charles H. McClellan, Greenfield. 

21. Warrant for Deerfield town meeting, June 20, 1776. "Would the 

town support Congress in the Declaration of Independence." 

Charles Jones. 
23. George Washington. Full length portrait George Sheldon. 

25. Bullet Pouch Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

26. Musket. Carried at Bunker Hill by the grandfather of the donor. ' 

Jerry Baker. 

27. Sword. Carried at Bunker Hill, by Lieut. John Bardwell, grandfather 

of the donor Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

28. Scabbard of No. 9 James Stebbins. 

29. Cartridge Box of Pelatiah Bliss, 1772 Fred B. Holden, Amherst. 

30. Hessian Musket. Captured at Saratoga, 1777, and carried after- 

wards in the American Army by John Broderick. Marks 
XXXVVXXXVIIII E. C. [or G.] on the brass plate. On the 
stock carved with a knife, J. B. [John Broderick]; D. S. [Darius 
Stearns], father of the donor John Steams, Conway. 

31. Canteen. Carried by John Hill, grandfather of the donor; a British 

soldier, who deserted at Boston in 1775. 

Henry Shepherd, Montague. 

32. Canteen. Marked D. D., probably carried in the Revolutionary War 

by Maj. David Dickinson George Sheldon. 

33. Earthen Canteen, "Monkey Jug" Mrs. George L. Moore, Leverett. 

35. Long-handled Frying Pan. Used by Maj. John Bolton of Colrain in 

the Revolutionary Army A. W. Snow, Colrain. 

36. Nails. From a house taken down in 1878, where four Indians dressed 

for the Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773. 

Miss Persis Taylor, Boston. 

37. Burned Wood and Nails. From the Gen. Phihp Schuyler mansion, 

burned by Gen. Burgoyne, Oct. 10, 1777. 

Samuel H. Travis, Greenfield. 

38. Piece of Tree, on which was placed an iron tablet reading: — "Near this 

spot Oct. 16, 1777 the American and British officers met and consum- 



86 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

mated articles of capitulation, from Gen. Burgoyne to Gen. Gates; 

and on this groimd the British Army laid down their arms." . . .Same. 
39. Piece of Cannon Ball from the cellar of Taylor, or now, Marshall house; 

the refuge of Madame Riedesel, Oct. 11, 1777, where Surgeon Jones 

had one leg shot off while the other was being amputated Same. 

49. Piece of Silk Flag. Captured at the surrender of Burgoyne, and brought 

home by Col. Hugh Maxwell Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

60. Orders of the Day. American Army, 1780. Issued at and near West 

Point William T. Barnard, Baltimore, Md. 

51 . Facsimile of Same Same. 

52. Canteen. Carried in the Revolutionary Army by Hezekiah Warriner. 

Mrs. Ryland Warriner, Philadelphia. 

54. Soapstone Bullet Mould. '' Kept hot night and day for two weeks 

before Bunker Hill," Warren Albee, Charlemont. 

55. Independence Watch. French, for the American market. The letters 

of "Independence" are used, instead of figures for the hours. 

James K. Stebbins, Ashtabula, Ohio. 

56. Bullet. From Bunker Hill James Smith, Whately, 

57. Army Chest. Carried through the Revolutionary War by Lieut. Tertius 

Taylor of Charlemont. Great-grandfather of the donor. 

Mrs. Margaret Taylor Baker, Charlemont. 

58. 59. Ammunition Boxes from a caisson captured from General Baum 

at the Battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777. .David Mowry, Leyden. 

60. Sword. Carried at Bennington, 1777. Given to donor by David 

Lamson of Newfane, Vt., who had it from his father. 

Joseph B. Saxton. 

61. Military Chest. Carried through the Revolution by Lieut. Caleb Clapp. 

Col. Thomas W. Ripley, Greenfield. 

62. Cannon Hook. Same as No. 59. For hitching drag ropes to axletree. 

David Mowry, Leyden. 

64. Pocket Book, 1760. Carried through the Revolutionary War. 

Mrs. Hawley, Shutesbury. 

65. Grape Shot. Brought from Revolutionary War by Isaac Kendall of 

Northfield, grandfather of donor. .Mrs. Lydia E. Gaines, Millers Falls. 

66. Hammer carried at Bunker Hill. (See label.) 

Hart Phillips, Hoosick Falls, N. Y. 

67. Army Trunk, carried through the Revolutionary War. 

Samuel T. Grout. 

68. Bolt from Gun Carriage captured from General Burgoyne. (See label.) 

Timothy M. Stoughton, Gill. 

69. Revolutionary Bayonet fastened by a thumbscrew. 

Capt. Gfeorge Pierce, Greenfield. 

70. Sword from the house of William Dorrell, Leyden, who was one of 

Burgoyne's soldiers captured at Saratoga. 
Dorrell was the founder of the sect called Dorrellites, 1796. (See Proc. 
Vol. II, p. 82, for article on the Dorrellites bj'^ Francis M. Thompson). 
See also MH., 309 Leon Hawks, Greenfield. 



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95. Camp Kettle. Used by Maj. John Burk of the Independent Rangers, 
during the French and Indian Wars, 1744-1760. 

John F. Hale, Bemardston. 
185. Shingle from Brick Meetinghouse, 1824. (See label) Charles Jones. 

190. BUnds from Steeple of Old Meetinghouse, 1729 Same. 

191. Blinds from Windows of Old Meetinghouse, 1729 Philo Munn. 

192. Ornamental Work. From Front Door of Old Meetinghouse, 1729. 

Charles Jones. 

195. Wicket Ball Bat, period, 1825-30 Same. 

196. Well Pole. From "Uncle Liph's" Well Same. 

206. Hands from the Old Meetinghouse Clock, 1744 George Sheldon. 

209. Works from the Old Meetinghouse Clock, 1744 Same. 

210. Portmanteau Elihu Smead, Shelbume. 

211. " Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

212. " George Sheldon. 

214. Whip. Used on old stage coach by donor's husband, who drove down 

the Valley before railroads Mrs. Oscar A. Hawks, Greenfield. 

215. Mexican "Quyrt." Bought by donor at Fort Laramie, Wyoming 

Territory. . James H. Reed, Marion, Ohio. 

216. Mexican Bridle George Wells, Bemardston. 

217. Old Horseshoes found in swamp east of donor's homestead. 

James S. Grinnell, Greenfield. 

218. Mexican Spur Charles A. Hawks, Albuquerque, N. M. 

223. Razor and Strop Est. Jolm G. Williams. 

224. Shaving Case Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

227. Safety Stirrup. Old. 

228. Saddle Bags and Medicine Pouch. Long used by Dr. William Bull. 

Mrs. JuUa E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

229. Spur. 

230. Shaving Case marked CD Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

231. " " of Wood. Home-made George Sheldon. 

232. " " " and Strop. Home-made . . . .\rthur Hutchins. 

233. 234. Two Shaving Cases of Wood. Home-made. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

235. Shaving Case of Wood. Home-made. . . .Martha Dickinson, Whately. 

236. Mining Lamp. Used in Tunnels of Italy James A. Hawks. 

237. Shears for Saddler's Use Justin B. Hitchcock. 

238. Bottom of Pillar from the Meetinghouse in Simderland, built in 1792. 

Jesse L. Delano, Sunderland. 

239. Ice Caulks. For walking on ice George Sheldon. 

240. Old-fashioned Shoe Pegs Samuel T. Grout. 

243. Woodchuck's Hide, tanned by "Uncle Sid.". .Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

244. Arm Rest from Old Meetinghouse, 1729 Mrs. Direxa Nims. 

245. Sculptured Stone foimd under the foundation of a house built in 

Whately, 1759 Morris J. Powers, Whately. 

246. Tray made of horn Dr. David Rice, Leverett. 

249. Handle of Barrel Lid. Natural growth Benjamin Ray. 



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253. Iron Rings. Found under the tread of stairs in donor's house in 1875. 
Presumably charms against witches George Sheldon. 

255. Swinging Board for taking notes of sermons. From the old meeting- 
house of 1729 Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

277. Mail Bag. Supposed first one used at Sunderland post office. 

Jesse L. Delano, Sunderland. 

278. Case of Drawers for tacks, etc Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

279. Box with Shoemakers' Materials Same. 

280. Harness-maker's Tools, etc Same. 

281. Basket with cloth bottom owned by Dea. Justin Hitchcock, hatter. 

Use unknown Same. 

2S3. Harness-maker's Clamps Same. 

290. Mail Bag and Dagger. Leather bag, fifteen inches square, which 
appears to be a military dispatch bag. The bottom is of wood to 
which the leather was nailed, most of which had rotted away. The 
top was fastened with a strap like a U. S. mail bag. It was found 
under a clump of bushes, eighteen inches below the surface, on 
the Moses Rice place near Stillwater, in 1878, by the donor, who 
says the bushes had been there from before his remembrance. 
With the bag was also found the point of a sword-blade, thirteen and 
one-half inches long and with two holes at the broken end as if 
made to fasten on a handle and so make a knife. Several hacks, on 
both back and edge, indicate that the sword had seen service before 
it was broken Hiram M. Stearns. 

300. Skates worn by donor George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

301. Skates of Jonathan R. Childs John Sheldon. 

302. Turtle Shell. Back * 

303. " " Belly * 

304. Basket Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

305. Top Boots. Made by donor's father in 1813 . . Elihu Smead, Shelburne. 

306. Peaked Shoes Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

307. " Boot Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

308. Wooden Shoe William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

309. Shoes, Linen and Wood. Worn by William Dorrell, founder of the 

Dorrellites, who refused to kill animals or wear anything made 
from animal materials. (See MH., No. 70) * 

310. Indian Moccasins. 

312. A Pair of Large Leather Overshoes. . . .Mrs. John Adams, Greenfield, 

313. Shoes. Worn by Consider Dickinson Dickinson Est. 

314. Last for Child's Shoe Samuel T. Grout. 

315. Last for " Little Mary " Hawks' Shoes Martha G. Pratt. 

316. Wooden Shoes from Holland s^ 

317. Shoe from the Azores Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

318. Boot, Canadian Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

319. Skates. Worn by William T. Wells of Troy, N. Y., in 1840, and by 

the donor, 1855 Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

320. Skates. Worn by donor when a boy Ruf us Howland, Greenfield. 



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321. Boots Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

322. Shoes from Copenhagen, Denmark. Wood with leather top. 

Mrs. CaroHne S. Shumann, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

323. Palm Leaf * 

326. Large Turtle Shell Edwin B. Smead, Baltimore, Md. 

329. Large Fan Handle * 

341. Moulding Tool John Stearns, Conway. 

350. Set of Cooper's Tools Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

351. Calipers. For measuring rafts, at South Hadley canal. 

Lester L. Luey, Greenfield. 

352. A Sixteen-sided Board Measure. Hand-made by Capt. Eber Lee, 

about 1800. Hundreds of figures cut with jackknife. . .Charles Lee. 

353. 354. Two Wooden Compasses, for cooper's use. 

Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

355. Chine Shave for Cooper's use Same. 

356. Wimble Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

357. Old Hide-Covered Trunk. The kind brought by English settlers in 

the early days Miss Mary Willard. 

358. Neck Yoke for a Cutter Neap. 

359. Shave, peculiar shape George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

360. Rocking Chair Samuel T. Grout. 

399. Copper Scales Est. Dr. Jolin Stone, Greenfield. 

400. Scales A. B. Bartlett. 

401. Wooden Trowel. For mason's use . .Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

402. Calipers Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

403. Large Draw Shave, without Handle, Dr. Bull's. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

404. Beveling Instrument, marked CD Justin B. Hitchcock. 

405. Set of Carpenter's Tools, about 1770, which belonged to Capt. Caleb 

Clapp, grandfather of the donor. 

Col. Thomas W. Ripley, Greenfield. 

406. Moulding Tool G. Wardwell, Winchester, N. H. 

407. Wooden Try Square Justin B. Hitchcock. 

408. Old Hatchet Charles H. Stebbins. 

409. Wooden Try Square, used by the donor's father, Calvin Stearns. 

Marshall S. Stearns, Northfield. 

410. Bit Stock Mrs. H. B. Clark, Erving. 

411. Screw Plate used in Deerfield, 1792-1829 by Augustus Lyman, 

blacksmith, and later by Ebenezer Ames, his apprentice, of Conway, 
grandfather of the donor E. P. Ames, Conway. 

412. Pod Auger Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

413. Plane, about 1780 Same. 

414. Two Wooden Bit Stocks Same. 

415. Bit Stock Elisha Stratton, Northfield. 

416. Three Planes, about 1780 Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

417. Bit Stock, entirely of wood J. D. Battles, Northfield Farms. 

418. " " James S. Richardson, Montague. 



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419. Gauge Justin B. Hitchcock. 

420. Dividers. Made by John Partridge Bull, 1750-60. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

421. Instrument used by the Town Sealer of Weights and Measures. 

Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

423. Dividers Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

424. Hand Tool for drawing wire of different sizes. 

Horatio Shaw, Plainfield. 

425. Iron Spud Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

427. Leather Apron Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

428. " Uncle Sid's " Saddle Dickinson Est. 

429. Bit Stock. 

430. " " B. F. Severance, Shelburne. 

431. Shave for making staves for sap buckets John Stearns, Conway. 

442. Bit Stock Emory A. Lee, Greenfield. 

450. Part of Big Scales. From the old Ware Corner Store. 

George Sheldon. 

451-456 were brought from the Azores in 1879 by the donor who 

found them in use there Miss C. AUce Baker, Cambridge. 

451. Rake. 

452. Swingling Knife. 

453. Hoe. 

454. Rope made from Rushes. 

455. Bill Hook. 

456. Pitch Fork. 

457. Bush Scythe Moses S. Ward. 

458. Cattle Poke Charles Jones. 

459. Pod Augur, Twisted Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

460. Hatter's Scales Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

461. Double Steelyards. Made by John P. Bull. 

Mrs. JuUa E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

462. Drag Dickinson Est. 

463. A connecting link between two logs of the Greenfield Aqueduct Co., 

after being in the ground at least fifty years. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

464. Bridle Bit and Chip cut from an Elm Tree, twenty-five feet from the 

ground, by Egbert Hall of Antwerp, N. Y. The tree stood on a dis- 
used road in the northern part of Jefferson County, N. Y., built 
during the old French Wars. Crumbling fragments of the bridle 
were attached J. M. Spaulding, Charlemont. 

465. The Lost Hoe Foimd Ezekiel C. Hale, Bernardston. 

466. A Curious Growth of Wood Hinged Together .... Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

467. Hand-made Spikes and Nails from Memorial Hall, when repaired in 

1880. 

468. Picture of Famous Ox "Constitution," which belonged to John San- 

derson of Bernardston George Sheldon. 

470. Frower Charles Jones. 



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475. Old Pick Axe. Dr. Bull's Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

476. Tool for Making Mouldings Charles Sturtevant. 

478. Mop Iron Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

479. Pick Axe Justin B. Hitchcock. 

480. " " Marshall S. Stearns, Northfield. 

483. Fish Spear Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

485. Old I^ife Blade Elihu Smead, Newton. 

487. Shoemaker's Hammer George H. Williams. 

490. Branding Iron Joel Saxton. 

491. Mill Saw Set Charles Lee. 

492. Gouge, for tapping maple trees .... Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

494. Curriers' Flesh Knife. From the old John Ball Tannery at Great 

River Nathan Cobb. 

495. Pattern of Cog Wheel, for cider mill grinder. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

497. HL Hinges Same. 

498. Knot Mallet Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

499. Adze Moses Ward. 

500. Basket. Canadian. Used as a cradle in the family of Richard Wat- 

rous, Northfield, 1817 Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

501. Cow Bell George Sheldon. 

502. Sleigh Bells Emily and Fanny Hinsdale, Bernardston. 

503. " " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

504. Sheep Bell Quintus Allen, Greenfield. 

505. Wooden Fetters, for tethering horses. 

Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

510. Saddle Bags Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

511. " " Mrs. Julia A. Allen. 

512. " " Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

513. " " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

514. " " George Sheldon. 

515. " " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

516. Sap Yoke Moses S. Ward. 

517. Cow Bell Justin B. Hitchcock. 

518. Calf Yoke Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

519. Hog Yoke. Found in the old Wells' House, Montague. 

Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

520. " " Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

521. Curry Comb, from Turkey Rev. LjTidon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

522. Comb, for horse's main and tail George Sheldon. 

523. Bill Hook Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

524. Curry Comb Hollis D. Graves, Sunderland. 

525. Corn Sheller Henry C. Haskell. 

526. Two Iron Tethers, for tethering horses Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

527. Bows for fastening cattle in stall. 

528. Old Wooden Shovel, Iron Shod Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

529. Axe, old style Same. 



92 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

530. Bill Hook Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

531. Axe, old style Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

532. Worm-eaten Tree Trunk George Sheldon. 

533. Fork for Manure Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

533i. " " " marked C. H. & Z. Hawks Charles Jones. 

534. Feed Basket. Used by William Barnard, 1765-1822, when teaming 

between Boston and Deerfield Miss Abby Barnard. 

535. Fork for Manure Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

536. Wooden Grain Shovel Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

536^. Manure Fork of improved pattern, about 1825 George Sheldon. 

537. Scythe. Said to have come over in the Mayflower. 

Joseph Boynton, South Wellfleet. 

538. Wooden Shovel Jesse L. Delano, Sunderland. 

539. Hoe George Sheldon. 

540. Spade Joseph B. Saxton. 

541. Rail Boy Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

543. Pitchfork, Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

544. " Early pattern of steel George Sheldon. 

545. " Albert Smith, Gill. 

546. " Used on Isaiah Brown's farm, about 1780. 

Hiram Bardwell, Whately. 

547. Original Com Sheller Marshall S. Stearns, Northfield. 

548. Meal Chest Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

549. Corn Sheller Henry C. Haskell. 

550. Hay Knife, owned by Jonathan Flagg of Wilmington, Vt. 

James R. Long, Greenfield. 

551. Parts of an Old Chaise Harness William Smead, Greenfield. 

552. Bows for Fastening Cattle in Stall George Sheldon. 

553. Sieves for Fanning Mill Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

554. Flail Staff and Swingel Charles Jones. 

555. Breast Plate Horse Collar George Sheldon. 

556. Chaise Harness Saddle Marshall S. Steams, Northfield. 

557. Wooden Hames Charles Jones. 

558. Old Style Pitchfork Same. 

560. Skepe or Corn Fan. Justin B. Hitchcock. 

562. Snake Hook. Used by the donor's great-grandfather Smead to pull 

rattlesnakes from under rocks in Leyden about 1760. 

William M. Smead, Greenfield. 

563. Bog Hoe Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

564. Mattock Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

565. Scythe Snath Charles Jones. 

666. Carpenter's Tools, etc. (See label.) Same. 

567. Large Try Square with Cross Brace Roswell F. Putnam, Leverett. 

569. Flail Charles Jones. 

570. Grain Cradle Same. 

571. " " Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

575. Skepe Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 



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576. Skepe John Luey, Slielbume. 

577-579. Sickles Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

580. Seat of One Horse Vehicle Called a "Chair." In use during the Revo- 

lution Charles Jones. 

581. Plow Marshall S. Stearns, Northfield. 

582. " Found one morning on doorstep of George Sheldon. 

583. " Dickinson Est. 

584. " Jesse L. Delano, Sunderland. 

585. Bog Hoe Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

586. Long-handled Spade Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

387. Thorough-brace from a gig used in 1830 by William Russell. 

Miss Margaret Whiting. 

589. Side Saddle of Kezia Plympton Harding, 1740 (great-granddaughter 

of "Old Sergt." John Plympton, one of the early settlers of Deer- 
field). It was handed down from her through five generations of 
the Plympton family to the donor. 

Mrs. Robert Smith, Duluth, Minn. 

590. Side Saddle Mrs. Sally E. Ward, Northfield. 

591. Saddle Cloth Same. 

590 and 591 used in 1783 by Polly Alexander. 

592. Side Saddle of Mary Hoyt, born in the Old Indian House, 1760; mar- 

ried Dr. William S. Williams, 1788, died 1821. By the wish of the 
heirs of Alexander Williams, her grandson, it is given by his widow. 

Mary G. Williams, Kirtland, Ohio. 

593. Skepe. Cut from a solid log by an ancestor Edward A. Hawks. 

594. Saddle Bags. 

595. Paddle Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

596. Carriage Lamps. From the first buggy in Franklin county. Built 

about 1830 by Field and Long, Greenfield, for "C. Stratton, Sur- 
geon Dentist," the first of his craft in western Massachusetts. 

George Sheldon. 

597. Hand Wrought Spikes and Nails Same. 

602. Tavern Sign, Montague, " M. Root," 1795. 

Mrs. Sanford E. Marsh, Montague. 

603. " " Northfield Farms, "A. Stratton," 1724-1820. From 
the old Stratton tavern in Northfield, kept by Hozekiah Stratton, 
born 1724, died 1800; Hezekiah Stratton, born 176G, died 1825; 
Arad Stratton, born 1793 Elisha Stratton, Northfield Farms. 

604. Tavern Sign, Bernardston 1792, Burk Fort Tavern, kept by Capt. 

John Burk, who commanded a company of Rangers in the French 
and Indian wars Richard Hoyt, Bernardston. 

605. Tavern Sign, Greenfield Meadows, " E. Wells"; tavern burned in 1816. 

Donor is a descendant of Godfrey Nims, on whose home lot, pur- 
chased in 1694, this Memorial Hall stands. 

Charles T. Nims, Greenfield. 

606. Tavern Sign, Old Meetinghouse Square, Greenfield, " A. Thayer," 

1819 Mrs. Julia Long, Greenfield. 



94 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

607. Doolittle Tavern Sign, Northfield, 1728-1830. 

Charles Alexander, Northfield. 
614. Cradle in which the "Belle of Greenfield" was rocked years ago. 

William Riddell, Greenfield. 

626. Basket, small, oblong, covered. 

Mrs. Pomeroy and Miss Kate Pratt, Chicopee. 

627. Button Moulds George Sheldon. 

636. Sni Bill for Ox Cart Frank Nims. 

641. Chair, Flag-bottom Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

643. Section of Stone Aqueduct dug up on land of Joel G. Rice of Conway. 

Emory A. Lee, Greenfield. 

647. Fifty Curtain Rings. Used about 1800 Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

654. Socket for " setting pole," on Fall River Boats. . . .Albert Smith, Gill. 

665. Chair Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

658. " Elm Bark Seat. 

659. Wooden Shovel marked " C. T. A. " and " Dewolf." 

John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

660. Drill Spoon Horatio Shaw, Plainfield. 

661. Burning Iron, 1800 George Sheldon. 

662. Set of Stanchion Bows Jolui M. Smith, Simderland. 

663. Old-time Saw Set made by David Shaw of Plainfield. 

Horatio Shaw, Plainfield. 

666. Ox-bow Chair, 1810 Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

667. Huge Circular Willow Basket. Used by Dr. Shepherd of Montague, 

father of the donor. Given during her last sickness in 1880. Use 
unknown Mrs. Lucius Stone, Greenfield. 

700. Bureau -Samuel T. Grout. 

701. Butterflies brought from Cuba by Miss Sarah Barnard, 1812-1864. 

Mrs. Hannah (Barnard) Jenks. 

702. Oak Chest, marked S. W. Not carved but painted; bought of Jona- 

than A. Saxton about 1870. It is said to have come over in the 
May-flower; it came down in the White family George Sheldon. 

703. Mounted Skeleton. Fox killed and prepared by a member of the 

P. V. M. Association James Smith, Whately. 

705. Skeleton Paw Same. 

706. Chair Cephas G. Clapp. 

709. Fossil Tracks in Sandstone. From Sheldon's Rocks. 

George Sheldon. 

710. Sandstone Impressions. From Sheldon's Rocks Same. 

711. Ancient Instrument for Testing Levels. Long in the Bull family. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 
713. Astronomical Apparatus, made and used by Pres. Edward Hitchcock, 
when principal of the Deerfield Academy, in calculating the al- 
manacs he published in 1814-18. Given by his son. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

715. Surveyor's Compass. Used by President Hitchcock, father of the 

donor about 1815-20 Same. 



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95 



716. 

717. 
718. 

721. 
725. 
740. 
741. 
742. 
743. 

744. 
745. 

750. 



751. 
752. 

753. 

754. 

755. 

756. 

760 



i-770. 



772. 

773. 

774. 
775. 
776. 
777. 
778. 
779. 
780. 
781. 
783, 



Compass Box Same. 

Compass Charles Lee. 

" Used by Quartus Judd in Illinois, in 1835. 

Lester L. Luey, Greenfield. 

Compass Box of Gen. Epaphras Hoyt Charles Arthur Hoyt. 

Harpoon from New Bedford Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

Centennial Pie Plate. (See inscription.) Major Tyler, Greenfield. 

Wig Block Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

Scales on an Iron Standard Heirs George W. Mark, Greenfield. 

Copper Drug Scales. Used by Dr. Bull. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

Drug Mortar and Pestle. Used by Dr. Bull Same. 

Saddle Bags with Outfit, as used by Dr. Noah S. Wells at Attica, N. Y., 

1838 Mrs. Noah S. Wells, Greenfield. 

Brick. Brought from England, 1629; built in house of Adam 
Hawks in Saugus, 1630; taken from chimney in 1880. 

Arthur J. Hawks. 
Brick. Marked 1770. House of W. Fox, Whately. 

Very large. Taken from the old Goss house, Montague City. 

Albert Smith. 
Sun-dried. From a house in Salem, built 1667. 

George Sheldon. 
From the old fortified Dickinson house in Northfield. 

Henry W. Dickinson, Cal. 
From the William Dickinson house, Deerfield. 

Virgil M. Howard. 
From the William Arms house, built about 1698. 

Christopher T. Arms, Pittsburg, Pa. 
Unclassified Fossils. All from quarries in Marion, Ohio . . James S. 
Reed, James H. Reed, John Owen, George Christian, George 
Smith, William Kelly, A. C. Conklin, M. D., Samuel Dumble, 
Rhuermand, M. V. Payne, G. F. Harding, M. D., Wil- 
liam H. Schaffner, W. C. Cunningham, George Crawford, 
T. P. Wallace, all of Marion, Ohio. (See also Case D, No. 290.) 
Brick from the house of William Arms, Jr., 1692-1774, of Deerfield; 

burned 1768 George Sheldon. 

Clay Stones * 

" " from Connecticut river Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon. 

Alfred Cobb. 

" " " Deerfield river Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

" " " Connecticut J. Y. Bergen. 

" " " " river Frank Brigham. 

" Nathan Cobb. 

" Alfred Cobb. 

" Same. 

Clay Stones from Farmington river, Conn. 

Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 



784 



96 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORI.-VL HALL 

785. Fossils from Durand, 111 Duncan J. Stewart. 

786. Brick from house of Jolin and Abigail Adams, Quincy. 

William G. Spear, Quincy. 
789. Fossils from quarries in Durand, 111. .Job Smith, Duncan James 

Stewart, Bristol, William W. Starr, Mrs. Susan G. Starr, 

Caleb A. Starr. (See Case D, Nos. 248-252.) 
790-794. Fossil Cephalopods. From Marion, Ohio. For donors, see 

Nos. 760-770. 

899. Pew Door. From the "Old Ship" in Hingham, built in 1681. One 

of the original pews owned by Maj. Francis Barker, great-grand- 
father of the donor. The seating was changed in 1873. This is the 
oldest meetinghouse which has been in constant use in the United 
States Miss Mary W. Lincohi, Hingham. 

900. A Piece of Pink Revolutionary Chintz. (See label.) 

Mrs. Madeline Yale Wynne. 

901. Old Bell. On Deerfield Academy built in 1798. (Now Memorial 

Hall.) 

904. Chair Mrs. Eimice K. Brown. 

905. High Case of Drawers or Highboy. Owned by Dr. Elihu Ashley 

who married in 1775 Mrs. Philena D. Trask. 

907. A Carved Oak Bridal Chest of the Elizabethan Period. Long in use 

in the Old Indian House Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

908. Wooden Band Box George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

909. Muff Box, blue Same. 

912. " " of Mrs. Rhoda Bardwell, given by her daughter. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

915. " " Same. 

916. Bandbox Same. 

917. " Partridge Pattern Mrs. Sarah A. Pratt. 

918. " Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

919. " of birch bark, from an old house in Warwick. 

Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 
920. 

921. Bandboxes Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

922. Large Wooden Bandbox Charles H. Stebbins. 

923. Muff Box Mi.ss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

924. Two Bandboxes. One with picture of " Clayton's Ascent." 

Roswell Hubbard, Hatfield. 

925. Bandbox, 21x17 inches. Made to fit a bonnet too large for any ordi- 

nary bandbox Miss Fanny Cheesebrough, Stonington, Conn. 

927. Needle Case Mrs. Ashton Carter, Charlemont. 

928. Old Bank Bills Frank J. Pratt, Greenfield. 

" in frame Hon. Silas N. Brooks, Chicago. 111. 

" Joseph A. Baldwin. 

931. Old Script in frame Same. 

" " Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

" " Rufus A. Packard, Greenfield. 



930. I'i 



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932. Rag Doll, "Bangwell Put." Belonged to Clarissa Field of North- 
field, born blind 1765, who kept it through her life of eighty years. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

935. Valance. Made from India Cotton, owned by Mrs. Catherine Knapp 
Alexander, of Charlestown, in 1799 Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

950. Old Silk Umbrella Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

951. Old Family Umbrella . . .Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

952. Parasol. Carried by Mrs. Persis (Hoyt) Sheldon, great-grandmother 

of the donor Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

953. Parasol Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

973. Candle Stand Hon. Robert R. Bishop, Newton. 

974. Melodeon. About 1850 Mrs. Rebecca Knight, Worcester. 

975. Organ. Built in 1820 by Daniel Pratt of Winchester, N. H., for Rev. 

Preserved Smith of Warwick, in whose house it stood for more 
than sixty years Mrs. Preserved Smith, Greenfield. 

976. Bass Viol. Made by Dea. Justin Hitchcock, and played by him in 

the Old Meetinghouse, Deerfield, 1770-78. . .Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

977. Bugle. (See label.) George R. Stebbins, Northfield. 

980. Board, 12 feetx26 inches. From the garret floor of the old house 

which was standing in 1698, on the Frary lot. Kept as a tavern by 
Maj. Salah Barnard, in the Revolution, and at which Benedict 
Arnold stopped, Apr. 6, 1775, on his way to Ticonderoga. 

Miss C. Alice Baker. 

1000. Scrip issued at Young's Hotel in Boston, Oct. 1, 1862, to supply 

the lack of currency Hon. Wendell T. Davis, Greenfield. 

1001. Set of U. S. Fractional Currency Same. 

1002. 3. Nut Shell Dishes from Cuba Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

1004. Silhouette, white. Life size George Sheldon. 

1005. " " Same. 

1006. Portrait Samuel B. WiUiams, Rochester, N. Y. 

1007. Piano. Made by Clementi, London. The first in Franklin county, 

brought to Deerfield in 1808 by Mrs. Susan Barker Willard, whose 
father. Dr. Joshua Barker of Hingham (H. U., 1772), sold a house 
to buy it. Given by her son Samuel Willard. 

1011. Print, Lady Helen Mar George W. Mark, Greenfield. 

1012. " Memorial Tablet Same. 

1013. " Queen Adelaide Same. 

1014. " Paul and Virginia Same. 

1015. Round Tripod Table S. A. Alexander, Northfield. 

1016. Mat. Made by Mrs. Caroline Sheldon Mrs. Belle S. Hawks. 

1021. Spinet. Antedating pianos. Made by Stephanus and Keene, Lon- 

don, about 1750. Belonged to Mrs. Susan Barker of Hingham. 

Samuel Willard. 

1022. Money Standards. Table of weights and value of old coins. 

Oren Wiley, Greenfield. 

1027. Print. Battle of Eylau Mrs. Janette Hoyt. 

1030. Brass-handled Shovel Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 



98 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

1031. Brass Tongs -. Same. 

1032. Bellows. Belonged to Sarah Catlin in 1761. 

Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer, Colrain. 

1035. Jamb Hooks. 

1036. Grate. Removed from the Parson Williams house, when it was set 

back to its present site in 1876 Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

1037. Brass Andirons Mrs. Ansel Collar, Northfield. 

1038. " " Mrs. Ehzabeth H. Childs, Buffalo, N. Y. 

1039. Brass Fender Mrs. Ransom N. Porter. 

1040. Hearth Rug Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

1041. Hearth Brush Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

1053. Mirror. Empire. Belonged to Filana Field when she was married 

to Consider Dickinson, 1783 Rodney B. Field, Guilford, Vt. 

1054. Curtain Knobs. In use by donor's mother in 1809. 

Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 
1056. Print Same. 

1059. Decanter. Belonged to Rev. Roger Newton, Greenfield, 1761-1812. 

Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

1060. " From Field Family, Northfield. 

Mrs. Lois B. Merriman, Northfield. 

1061. Bureau Cover Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

1063. Two Mats. Made by Mrs. Caroline Sheldon .... Mrs. Belle S. Hawks. 

1065. Chest and Drawers. Brought from Scotland about 1675. 

M. R. Kenny, Gill. 

1066. Old Painting. Fruit piece George Sheldon. 

1105. Sheep Bell Mrs. Delia Williams. 

1123. Green Parasol. Belonged to Mrs. John G. Williams. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

1124. Pair of Oil Lamps with Shades, owned in 1828 by Mrs. Thaddeus 

Coleman of Greenfield. Given by her daughter. 

Mrs. Noah S. Wells, Greenfield. 
1135. Small Brick. From Taylor Fort, Charlemont. 

1140. Curb to Bridle Bit George Sheldon. 

1141. Bear Trap. Found on Hoosac mountain about 1824 by Turner 

Potter and his father, of Greenfield Potter Est., Greenfield. 

1155. Glass Decanter. Belonged to donor's uncle, E. Hinsdale Williams. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

1157. Three Small Baskets Same. 

1159. Large, brown, cotton Umbrella Same. 

1162. Easy Chair, covered, that belonged to Mercy, born 1735, daughter 

of John Sheldon, born 1710. She married John Bardwell, 1763. 
They were the grandparents of the donor Same. 

1163. Old Colored Print Same. 

1167. Brass Warming Pan Est. of John G. Williams. 

1168. Waiter, Eagle and Shield. 

Mrs. Daniel D. Slade, Chestnut Hill, Boston. 

1169. Hearth Brush Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 



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1172. Square-toed Boots ■. Est. of John G. Williams. 

1174. Large Wicker Basket Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

1176. Old Sign used on Store, 1830 Est. of John G. Williams. 

1181. Iron Tool of Cooper's Outfit Henry Wells, Shelbume. 

1193. Hand-made Tacks from Maj. Salah Barnard's Chest and Drawers. 

Miss Electa Mather. 

1194. First Ballot Box used in Bemardston. 

Lucius P. Chapin, Bemardston. 

1195. Portmanteau. Belonged to Nathaniel Smith, Esq. 

John M. Smith, Sunderland. 

1196. Pair of Ancient Pattens Miss Annie C. Putnam, Boston. 

1197. Original Rubber Overshoes. 

1198. Cooper's Plane and Other Tools Henry Wells, Shelbume. 

1199. Shoemaker's Clamp. . . . ■. Same. 

1203. Bit Stock Same. 

1210. Concord Reformatory Shoe Pegs George Sheldon. 

1221. Silver-plated Coat and Vest Buttons, about 1795 Same. 

1222. Pewter Coat Buttons Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

1223. Piece of the Covering of an Arm Chair which belonged to Lucy 

Frary Stebbins, about 1780 George Sheldon. 

1226. Auctioneer's Hammer. 

1234. Hand-made Nails from a very old house in Milton. 

Miss Edith Crehore, Boston . 
1243. Large Waiter with painted figure of lady. 

Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

1265. Shoemaker's Pinchers Same 

1266. Mirror, Wood and Gilt Same. 

1272. Two Decanters Same. 

1274. Whaler's Lance Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

1275. Bureau of Persis (Hoyt) Sheldon, 1747-1829 George Sheldon. 

1289. Small Colored Picture Same. 

1291-1299. Set of Currier's Tools. . . .E. D. Graves, Wendell Depot. 

1291. Scouring Stone. 

1292. Whitener's Knife, for whitening, skiving or green shaving leather. 

1293. Two Whitener's Steels. 

1294. Turning Steel. 

1295. Polishing Glass. 

1296. Whitening Slicker for Shaving Calfskins. 

1297. Setting out Slicker. 

1298. Flesh Brush. 

1299. Whitener's Screw Driver. 

1305. Old Shears ploughed up on Taylor Hill . . Clarence M. Ball, Montague. 

1317. Engraving, Princess Carohne John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 

1318. " Napoleon Bonaparte Same. 

1319. " Marie Louise Same. 

1338. Piece of One of the Gallery Pillars of the Meetinghouse built in Sun- 
derland in 1792 Jesse L. Delano, Svmderland. 



100 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

1339. Old Style Work Basket Jonathan Joluison, Greenfield. 

1340. Old Ship Compass L. S. Abell, Conway. 

1342. Eye Bolt, used in suspending the dome of the State House, Boston, 

built in 1797, repaired in 1897 Louis A. Phillips, Boston. 

1344. The Washington Family. Framed lithograph from the engraving 

of E. Savage Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

1348. Nails taken from the Massachusetts State House when repaired in 

1897. Made in state prison for the building when it was erected 

by Bullfinch, in 1797 Louis A. Phillips, Boston. 

1354. Carpenter's Old-fashioned Broad Axe Theodore Childs. 

1366. "Uncle Sid's" Saddle Bags Leon O. Hawks, Greenfield. 

1369. Pair of Ice Spurs or Calks John H. Stebbins. 

1375. Early Cut Nails, 1810 George Sheldon. 

1376. Shoemaker's Rubber John G. Graves, Greenfield. 

1390. Wooden Grain Shovel Emory Lee, Greenfield. 

1394. Old-time Willow^ Work Basket . . George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

1395. Covered Basket with Two Braided Handles Same. 

1396. Two Wicker Hand Baskets, covered. One handle missing. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

1397. Small Wicker Hand Basket Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

1400. Symbolic Wood Carving of the Pelican Feeding her Young. . . .Same. 

1402. Large Waiter, black center, with wide ornamentation on border. 

James Smith, Whately. 

1403. A Crayon Head, entitled "The Monk," by Miss Mary Long of Green- 

field, drawn while in the famous school of Miss Draper at Hartford, 
Conn Mrs. Sarah C. Rice, Greenfield. 

1404. Picture of Tomb with Willows George Sheldon. 

1405. Landing of the Pilgrims Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

1406. Drawings on Powder Horns Rufus A.. Girder, New York. 

1407. Picture made of difi'erent kinds of moss. 

Miss Eliza Tibbs, Middletown, Conn. 

1409. Castor, Silver plated, with seven bottles. Belonged to Wendell T. 

Davis of Greenfield Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

1410. Carpet Bag Mrs. William P. Saxton. 

1413. Big Cow Bell Mrs. Mary Ann Wright. 

1416. Wooden Grain Shovel marked "J. Hitchcock 1798. " 

Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

1417. Hay Hook without Handle. 

1418. Small Leather Trimk rnarked " S. A. S.," in brass nails. Formerly 

owned by Susan Ann Smith Harold R. Frizzell, Greenfield. 

1419. Little Hair Trimk marked " C. A." Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

1420. Small Wooden Bench Screw Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

1421. Trunk cut from a solid log by Dea. Justin Hitchcock Same. 

1422. Small Trunk. Leather handle Same. 

1423. Hair Trunk marked " D. M.," made by Dexter Marsh of Greenfield, 

the discoverer of the fossil footprints of the Connecticut Valley. 
Given by his son George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 



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1426. Two Old Hay Knives Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

1427. Trunk marked " C. S. S." Same. 

1428. Trunk marked " C. H." Est. Jolm G. Williams. 

1429. Large, Roimd Wooden-topped Trunk. 

1434. Boots from Zinc-eyed Indians at St. Michael's Islands, Behring Sea, 

1898 Charles J. Guer, North Adams. 

1435. Shoes Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. 

1436. Umbrella, old style John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 

1437. Block for Shaping Palm Leaf Hats Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

1438. Hatter's Block and Mallet used by Dea. Justin Hitchcock, 1765. 

Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

1439. Chemical Box. Used by President Edward Hitchcock during the 

Geological Survey of Massachusetts in 1838. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

1443. Life-size Silhouette. Mrs. Fanny Watriss, Northfield, 1779-1864. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

1444. Part of a Rib from the skeleton of a whale washed ashore on the 

beach at Plymouth George Sheldon. 

1447. Frower. 

1448. Sign of Dr. Charles L. Fisk Charles H. Stebbins. 

1449. " Bass Viol. Presented in memory of my brother, Charles Hawks 

Mimn, who was lost at sea in 1863, and of my father, Philo Munn, 
(born 1813), who used to play on this viol in the Unitarian church 
before it had an organ Mrs. Julia Munn Ashley. July 4, 1905." 

1450. Midshipman's Chest. Taken about thirty years ago from the famous 

Victory, Nelson's Flag Ship, at the Battle of Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 
1805. It bears the name of "William Jolm Moore, R. N.," now 
"Commander Royal Navy." He writes that he was serving on 
board the Victory in 1869, "when she bore the flag of the Com- 
mander-in-chief at Portsmouth," but that he "lost sight of the 
chest in 1874." It was found in a junk shop at Portsmouth by 
the donor James C. Jenkins, Greenfield. 

1451. Picture of the Victory Rev. Richard E. Birks. 

1490. Hair Flowers. A memorial of Zebina Stebbins' family. 

Charles H. Stebbins. 
1500. Windsor Arm Chair, broken and mended. 

Case A. 

1 . Beaver Hat George Sheldon. 

2. Tall Soft Hat Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

3. Beaver Hat Samuel Willard. 

4. " " 1844, worn by donor George Sheldon. 

5. 

10. Home-made Linen Socks George Sheldon. 

11. White Marseilles Vest Same. 

12. Buff Knee Breeches Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

13. Buckskin Knee Breeches Edward Shepherd. 



102 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

14. Velveteen Waistcoat Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

15. Scarf or Tippet Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

16. Long White Kid Glove. 

17. Ivnee Breeches George Sheldon. 

18. Velveteen Breeches Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

19. White Woolen Breeches Same. 

20. ICnitted Woolen Cap, worn by donor 

Dea. Phinehas Eield, Charlemont. 

22. Wedding Vest of Seth Sheldon, married 1810 George Sheldon. 

23. Velveteen Knee Breeches Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

25. Neck Stock Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

35. Corsets. 

36. " brought from Germany, before the Revolution. 

Mrs. Dr. David Rice, Leverett. 

37. " John Forbes, Leverett. 

38. " Child's, about 1730 Same. 

39. " Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

40. " Same. 

41 . Velvet Waistcoat, worn by Elijah Arms, Deerfield, born 1728. 

Miss Electa Lucilla Williams. 

42. Cocked Hat Nathaniel Hitchcock, 

43. Beaver Hat, worn by Dea. Phinehas Field on his wedding day. May 11. 

1831, and also on his eighty-fifth birthday reception, April 14, 1884, 
Presented by his nephew and niece. 

Joseph Smith and Lucy A. Blend. 

44. Mexican Citizen's Hat William H. Bartlett, Peoria, Arizona. 

45. Pair of Linen Stockings. . .Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing, Brattleboro, Vt. 

Case B, 

1. Military Cloak, worn by the donor when Colonel of Militia. 

Col. Roger H. Leavitt, Charlemont. 

2. Checked Apron, spun by Mrs. Judith Bardwell. .Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

3. Sash, with Bead Work Jolm M. Smith, Sunderland. 

4. Checked Handkerchief, made by the donor's grandmother, about 1780. 

Mrs. Meorra Payne, Montague. 

5. Shawl Mrs. Ellen Hawks Stebbins. 

6. Child's Suit, worn by WiUiam Baker of Conway in 1784. 

■.-^■^i Dennis Steams, Conway. 

7. Crape Dress of Mrs. Timothy Rogers of Bernardston. .George Sheldon. 

8. Linen Work Bag, made by'^Mrs. Eunice Lyman of Northfield. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

9. Linen Kerchief of Mrs. Eunice Lyman of Northfield Same. 

10. Neck Kerchief. Belonged to Mrs. Hilkiah Hawks. 

Mrs. Ellen H. Stebbins. 

11. Red Cloak. Belonged to Mrs. Filana Field Dickinson, 1761-1831. 

Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

12. Cap of Mrs. Caroline Sheldon, 1789-1865 George Sheldon. 



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13. Cloak, worn by Mrs. Patience Flagg in 1766, great-grandmother of 

the donor Mrs. Julia Long, Greenfield. 

14. Cloak owned by Fanny Clark Miner; brought from Scotland by her 

mother when she came to this country in 1S02. 

Mrs. F. C. Frizzell, Greenfield. 

15. Bonnet Mrs. Julia Long, Greenfield. 

16. Child's Green Silk Dress George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Col. 

19. Neck Cape. 

20. Silk Kerchief Mrs. Ellen H. Stebbins. 

21. Bridal Brocade Gown, worn January 1, 1785. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont, 

22. Wedding Shawl of the donor, 1844 Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

31. Christening Blanket, blue silk, used at the baptism of the children of 

Elijah Dwight and Diana Hinsdale, who were married in Greenfield 
in 1774". Mrs. Susan Bridgman, Belchertown. 

32. White Gown of Mrs. Martha Blood, Hillsboro, N. H., about 1780. 

Mrs. Augusta Barber Lamb, Greenfield. 

33. Plaid Cloak, owned by Persis Hoyt Sheldon, 1747-1829, grandmother 

of donor George Sheldon. 

35. Gown, worn about 1818 by Miss Orra White, later the wife of Pres. 
Edward Hitchcock, of Amherst College. 

Miss Mary Hitchcock, Hanover, N. H. 

38. Gown of " Little Mary " Hawks Miss Caroline L. Ray. 

39. Cloak Fastenmgs, (outside the case) Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

Case C. 

The contents of this Case are principally from the Old Academy 
Museum. 

1. Saw from the Saw Fish. The donor (b. July 10, 1778) was the great- 

grandson of the "Redeemed Captive." He was a sea-captain and 
died at the Isle of Bourbon while on his return from the East 
Indies, August, 1806 John Williams, Jr.* 

2. Sword from the Sword Fish Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, Roxbury .* 

3. Grass Work * 

4. Cloth made from Bark Mrs. Ehzabeth Newhall.* 

5. 6. Feather Work. (See No. 1.) Jolin Wilhams, Jr.* 

7. War Club. Alaska Hon. Thomas Dwight, Springfield.* 

8. Curious Wood Formation * 

9. Money Pouch of Col. Elihu Hoyt, 1800 Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

10. Money Pouch, Indian. From Florida Erastus Barnard.* 

11. Saw of a Saw Fish. 

12. Star Fish John Scott, New Haven, Conn.* 

13. Plaster Fruit * 

14. Wood, showing action of Borer * 

15. "Boiled Rice" Pagoda Marmaduke Wait, Windsor, Vt.* 

16. Head Cushion * 

17. Image in Alabaster Dr. Long, Shelburne.* 



104 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

18. Coral * 

19. Pearl Oyster Shell Rufus Rowland, Greenfield. 

20. Idol. From Asia Joseph H. Hollister, Greenfield. 

21. Hand Screen. From the Orient. 

Brought by Elijah Dwight Williams.* 

40. Grass Drinking Cup. From Alaska * 

41. Snake Skin Pouch Daniel and John Hawks.* 

42. Grass Water Cup. From Alaska * 

43. Shells * 

45. Fish Hook. Northwest Coast of America * 

46. Ornament * 

47. Shell with Barnacles, 1865 George Sheldon. 

48-51. Shells * 

62. Cup made from a Nut * 

53, 54. Money Pouches Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

56. Shells. From Southern Florida Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 

57. Mica A. C. Hartwell. 

58. Ring and Charm * 

59. Whale's Tooth Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 

60. Horn Spoon * 

61. Indian Shell Gorget * 

62. Horn Spoon * 

, 63. Fossil Brachiopod. 

64. Shells Rev. Jolm P. Watson, South Wellfleet. 

65. Shells and Sea Urchins Mrs. J. Y. Bergen. 

67. Bear's Tooth Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

68. Shell * 

69. Star Fish * 

71. Buffalo Tooth Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

72. Jaw Bones * 

73. Sea Snail Shell * 

74. Clam Shell * 

75. Spider in Amber Lyman Frink, Greenfield. 

76. Indian Birch Basket with Fossils Luthera Wright. 

77. Shells Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

78. Pod of Tropical Plant * 

79. Indian Scoop. From Alaska * 

80. Lines. From Alaska * 

81. Shells Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

83. Indian Box * 

84. Pipe Case. 

85. Pipe. 

86. Piece of First Atlantic Cable Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

100. Petroski Agate Specimens, pohshed and in the rough. From Michigan. 

Edwin W. Harris, Charlemont. 

101. Minerals * 

102. Ore from Mines in Heath Samuel C. Day, Rowe. 



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103. Fossil Coral * 

104. Colorado Minerals. 

105. Tarantula's Nest. From Nevada. . . .Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 
107, 108. Fossil Fish. From the quarry of the donor. 

Dwight C. Whitmore, Sunderland. 

109. Copper Slag Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

110. Slate Pencils. Were in the great Chicago fire. 

Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

111. Fern Impressions * 

113. Minerals. From Hoosac Tunnel George Sheldon. 

114. " Same. 

115. Petrifaction * 

140. Horned Toad Arthur J. Hawks. 

141. Centipede Same. 

142. Scorpions Same. 

143. Tarantula Same. 

144. Whale's Tooth Mrs. Eliza (Williams) Smith. 

145. Scorpion and Lizard Arthur J. Hawks. 

146. 147. Horns * 

148. Pocket Book Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

160. Section of Cocoanut Husk and Shell Erastus Barnard.* 

162. Tropical Dried Fruit * 

163. Horn * 

164. Horse-shoe Crab Mrs. J. Y. Bergen. 

170. Lead Ore. From Minersville, Mo.; 90 per cent. lead. 

Hervey Barber, Warwick. 

171. Boar's Tusk Dr. R. S. Bowditch, Big Island, Ohio. 

172. Sections of Ivory Nut * 

173. Whole Ivory Nut * 

174. Skull * 

175. Ball from Cow's Stomach * 

176. Cinder. From Ancient Fort near Bourneville, Ohio. 

Mrs. J. Y. Bergen. 

177. Bones * 

181. Piece of Gypsum. From Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Hervey Barber, Warwick. 

184. Skull and Jaws " * 

185. Skull and ITpper Jaw * 

190. Minerals. From Ozark Mountains, Missouri, 1,600 feet above the 

River Hervey Barber, Warwick. 

191. Minerals. From top of Monadnock Same. 

192. " Mrs. Josiah Taintor. 

201. Shark's Jaws Samuel Turrall, Boston.* 

205. Quartz Crystals Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 

230. Minerals Same 

232. Ores, etc James Smith, Whately' 

250. Collection of Birds' Nests .... Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford. Topsfield" 



106 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

251. Minerals Same. 

252. Beginning of a "Pot Hole." From river bed at Sheldon's Rocks. 

George Sheldon. 

255. Vertebrae of a Whale * 

256. Collection of Birds' Eggs. (See 250.) 

Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 
258. Pipe Bowl and Bullet found under the foundations of the old Smead 
House, which was taken down in 1890. 

Job and Christopher Slocum. 

260. Black Snake, 4 feet, 7 inches Abbie M. Gillette, Greenfield. 

261. Striped Snakes Same. 

265. Seventeen-year Locusts Caleb A. Starr, Durand, 111. 

266. Relics from Niagara Falls George Sheldon. 

267. Optical Apparatus * 

268. Relics from the Boston Fire in 1872 George Sheldon. 

269. Fragments from the base of the Egyptian Obelisk in New York, 

April 21, 1881 Same. 

270. Raw Cotton and Seeds. From South Carolina. 

Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

271. Money Pouch, made of the Heart Case of an Ox George Sheldon. 

272. Five Money Pouches Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

273. Two Money Bags Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

274. Heart Case of Ox, used for Money Purse. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

275. East Indian Pouch * 

276. Costume of Pacific Islander * 

277. Bark Cloth * 

278. Horn Spoon, Sitka, Alaska William T. Clapp, Pasadena, Cal. 

279. Two Palm Fans * 

281. Branching Coral * 

282. Striped Snakes Miss Abbie M. Gillette, Greenfield. 

283. Green, young Black and Hoop Snakes Same. 

284. Adder and Hoop Snake Same. 

285. Small Snakes, unknown Same. 

286. Salamander Same. 

287. Thousand-legged Worm Same. 

288. Garden Slugs Same. 

289. 290. Samples of Oil Rock and Sand from Wells of donor in Lima, Ohio. 

James H. Reed, Marion, Ohio. 

291. Polished Slate in Natural State as taken from quarry in Dummerston, 

Vt., by the donor George A. Stearns, Dummerston, Vt. 

292. Geodes and Minerals Mrs. Dora Nelson, Greenfield. 

293. Rattlesnake's Rattle Same. 

296 "Demorahzed Rock." From the west end of Hoosac Tunnel. 

George Sheldon. 

297. Two Palm-leaf Fans, brought from India by Elijah Williams, son of 

John Williams, Esq., 1745-1793 Mrs. Catherine E. B. Allen. 



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298. Folded Slate Frank L. Nash, Greenfield. 

299. Fossil Footprint. From Sheldon's Rocks, Deerfield . . George Sheldon. 

300. Hawaiian Fan * 

301. Hat of Nootka Sound Woman * 

302. Lance * 

303. Leaves and Twigs found at Tim's Kiln, North Meadows, under 20 feet 

of alluvial deposit, 1870 George Sheldon. 

304. A Collection of Specimens from the Cabinet of Dexter Marsh of 

Greenfield, including 1 fossil footprint, 3 fish impressions, 2 sec- 
tions Pearly Nautilus, 19 shells, 7 minerals. 

George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

Case D. 

1. Wooden Tankard. Found in the house of Rev. Eli Moody, Monta- 
gue. Made with staves and hoops. 

James S. Richardson, Montague. 
2—8. Coins, Medals and Badges, collected and donated by 

Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 
9. Pine Tree Shilling Dr. Grace Peckham, New York. 

10. United States and European Copper Coins. 

11. Foreign Coins C. W. LefSer, Marion, Ohio. 

12. " " Copper. 

13. Japanese Coins Rev. Robert Crawford, D. D. 

14. Miscellaneous Coins Miss Persis Tyler, Greenfield. 

15. Spanish Coins, Silver Rev. Robert Crawford, D. D. 

16. Canada Coins, Copper. 

17. Copper Coins James S. Bryant, Hartford, Conn. 

18. Eastern Coins Rev. LjTidon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

19. Miscellaneous Coins Mrs. J. Y. Bergen. 

20. Spanish Milled Dollar, |, |, and j\. Collected and presented by 

Chester G. Crafts, Whately. 

21. Medal or Souvenir made from the pipes of the organ in the old North 

Church, erected in Boston 1723. The organ was given to the 
society by George I, and the original pipes were replaced in 1885. 

Miss Minnie F. Munroe, Cambridge. 

22. George III Penny, 1799 Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

23. Marietta Centennial Medal, 1788-1888 George Sheldon. 

24. English Penny, George IV, 1822 Mrs. Mary Spooner, England. 

25. Roman Coins James S. Bryant, Hartford, Conn. 

25^. Roman Coins Miss Ellen Palmer, Boston. 

26, 27. Roman Coins James S. Bryant, Hartford, Conn. 

28. Greek and Roman Coins Samuel Carter, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

29. English Rose Penny. George I. 

30. English Half Penny. Dug up at Dummerston, Vt., by the donor. 

James A. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

31. Marriage Medal. Prince of Wales. 

32, 33. Miscellaneous Coins Samuel Carter, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



108 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

34. English Copper Coins Same. 

35. Canada and Nova Scotia Coins Same. 

36. Set of United States Cents, since 1857 Same. 

37. United States Cents, before 1857 Same. 

38. United States Cent. Struck from the original die, at New Haven. 

Given to donor on battlefield of Antietam. 

Rev. P. Voorhees Finch, Greenfield. 
38^. Colonial Cents Sundry donors. 

39. United States Coins Chester G. Crafts, Whately. 

40. Tradesmen's Tokens Rodney B. Field, Guilford, Vt. 

41. Jackson and other Medals. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

42. Medal. From the Flag Ship Lawrence, at Lake Erie. 

Joseph U. Houston, Hawley. 
Other Contributors of Coins: Mrs. Delancy C. Kimball, Leverett; 
Miss Martha G. Pratt; George A. Arms, Greenfield; Smith R. 
Phillips, Springfield; Jeremiah Egan, Greenfield; Thomas Mer- 
chant; Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt; Lester L. Luey, Greenfield; John 
Sheldon, Greenfield; J. Dustin Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

43. Medal, 250th Anniversary of Settlement of Springfield, 1886. 

Abijah W. Chapin. 

44. United States Cents, 1794-1887, inclusive, except 1799, 1804. Col- 

lected by the donor Chester G. Crafts, Whately. 

45. Uncirculated Five-cent United States Coin. 1904. 

J. R. Stratton, Athol. 

46. Coins and Medals Chester G. Crafts, Whately. 

47. Hartford Medal. Unveiling Statue, 1884. 

James S. Bryant, Hartford, Conn. 

48. National Peace Jubilee Badge, Philadelphia, Oct. 26-27. 1898. 

W. L. Thomas, New Haven, Conn. 

49. Two Lincoln Medals, 1864 W. G. Beaman, Northfield. 

50. Five Coins Charles M. Taintor, Manchester, Conn. 

51. Tradesmen's Token, Dix Medal, Canadian Half-penny, 1837, Canadian 

20-cent, 1858, Bank Token, 10-penny. . .Rose Le Point, Greenfield. 

52. William Henry Harrison Campaign Button, 1840 lolin Billings. 

53. Harrison Medal. Worn at Harrison Ball, 1840. 

Miss Abbie C. Sloan, Marion, Ohio. 

54. American Half Dollar, 1831. Donor bom 1831. 

Chester G. Crafts, Whately. 

55. Swedish Coin Mrs. H. Leidberg, Chicago, 111. 

56. Holland Coin Elmendorf Carr, New York City. 

57. Pewter Medal. Found in digging for a well in Gill. Diameter 2 inches. 

Obverse, head of Washington; reverse, eagle holding scroll and 
shield ; 13 stars James S. Bryant, Hartford, Conn. 

58. Dix Medal. The Flag of our Union, 1863. "If anybody attempts to 

tear it down shoot him on the spot.". .Simeon A. Field, Northfield. 

59. Log Cabin Medal of Harrison Campaign Mrs. Samuel Hastings. 



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lUl. Pitcher. Herculaneum. Very rare. Ornamented with embossed 

hunting scene Mrs. Jolm Steams, Conway. 

Nos. 102-104 are from the family of Dexter Marsh of Greenfield, 
father of the donor George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

102. Pitcher. Chasing the Ostrich. Pink and White. 

103. Pitcher. White, six-sided. 

104. Plate. Blue and white, flowered. 

105. " Scalloped, blue and white Charles H. Stebbins. 

109. China Cup and Saucer. These pieces were a part of the marriage 

outfit of Susan (Stearns) Sheldon in 1844 George Sheldon. 

111. English Ewer Mrs. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

113. Pitcher. White with raised flowers Mrs. Ardelia Williams. 

116. " Little Boy Blue Joseph Robbins. 

117. Tea Pot Josiah Rice, Leverett. 

118. China Tea Bowl. White and gold Dr. Caleb C. Field, Leominster. 

119. White and Gold China Cream Pitcher Same. 

120. White and Gold Teacup and Saucer Same. 

121. Masonic Pitcher Alfred Cobb. 

126. Teapot James Smith, Whately. 

127. Gravy Dish George Sheldon. 

128. Covered Dish Mrs. Juha A. Allen. 

129. Teapot. Rogers James A. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

130. " John N. White. Whately. 

131. Pitcher. White with green stripes. 

Mrs. Horace A. Smead, Greenfield. 

132. Dish. From outfit of Mary Wells, who married Lucius AUis of Con- 

way, April 14, 1765 Mrs. Z. A. Lyman, Charlemont. 

133. Blue and White Pitcher. 

134. Colonial Pitcher Alfred Cobb. 

135. Large Covered Dish. Belonged to Mrs. Mary Ford of Windsor, born. 

1770, great-grandmother of the donor. 

Mrs. Lena L. Boyden, Conway. 

136. Bowl. Brown and white. 

137. Large Soup Tureen. Belonged to Rev. Roger Newton, second minister 

of Greenfield Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

138. Teapot James A. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

141. " Edwin Barrett, Belchertown. 

142. Tureen Cover. Blue and white Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

143. Blue Delft Bowl Same. 

144. Dish. Blue and white Same. 

145. Sauce Plate. Owned by Mrs. Frederick Barnes of Brookfield about 

1780, who was grandmother of the donor. 

Mrs. Sarah C. Rice, Greenfield. 

147. Teapot. Blue and white Mrs. Alpheus Cobb. 

148. Tureen. Blue and white Dr. Caleb C. Field, Leominster. 

149. Blue saucer-shaped Cake Plate Mrs. Leantha C. Boyden, Conway. 

150. Blue Teapot Mrs. Harriet C. Howe. 



110 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

151. Dish. Brought from Mendon to Gill in 1800. 

Mrs. Nancy A. Chapin, Gill. 

152. Punch Bowl. Owned by Charles Lyman of Northfield. Used by 

Revolutionary soldiers Mrs. Cephas H. Morgan, Orange. 

154. Teapot Mrs. Julia A. Allen. 

155. Dish Mrs. Sarah A. Pratt, 

156. Nappy. Belonged to outfit of Miss Lucy E. Carter of Warwick, who 

married Dr. George Bull in 1838. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

157. Soup Tureen. Riley. Belonged to Patty Pomroy of Warwick, 

mother of donor, married in 1792. 

Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

158. Brown and White Pitcher. Belonged to donor's mother Same. 

200. Straw Bonnet, white. 

201. Wedding Bormet (silk) of Mrs. Joseph Severance, Greenfield. 

Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

202. Pumpkin Hood Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

203. Silk Hood Same. 

204. Green Calash. (See attached history.) 

Mrs. Frank Williams, Stonington, Conn., through Miss Fanny 
Cheesebrough, Stonington, Conn. 

205. Calash Hood Mrs. Alonzo W. Bates. 

207. Bonnet. Brown silk with rattans. 

208. Silk Work Bag. 
209. 

210. Reticule Mrs. Frank W. Stebbins. 

211. " Brown Silk. Belonged to Mrs. Caroline Sheldon. 

George Sheldon. 

212. Washington Chintz. (See MH, No. 900.) 

213. Black Leather Bag. Used by the mother of the donor. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Clark Ford, Whately. 

215. Bundle Handkerchief. Brought from England by donor. 

Mrs. Robert Sandy. 

216. White Silk Bonnet. 

217. BroAvn and Blue- Shirred Bonnets. 

218. Brown Silk Pumpkin Hood 

219. Green Calash. Worn by an ancestor of the donor. 

Miss Margaret H. Bartlett, Newburyport. 

220. Green Silk Bonnet, white lining. 

224. Five Old Bonnets Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

227. Black Bonnet Mrs. Julia Long, Greenfield. 

Nos. 228-234. Given by Miss Caroline L. Ray. 

228. Hat— style 1876. 

229. Bonnet— style 1875. 

230. " " 1874. 

231. " " 1867. 

232. " " 1869. 



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233. Bonnet Frame. 

234. " Coal Scuttle Pattern. 

235. " Leghorn. 

236. Old Black Silk Bonnet. 

237. Brown Silk, Shirred. 

238. Two Black Silk Bonnets. 

239. Straw Bonnet. 
240. 

241. " " Black. 

242. " " Fancy. 

245. Frog Drinking Cup, 1836 A. W. Deming, Brattleboro, Vt. 

248-251. Fossils from Durand, 111. (For donors see MH, No. 789.) 

252. Fossil, 78 inches in length. Believed to be a remarkable specimen 

of Endoceras Annulatuni. Taken by the donor from a quarry in 
Durand, 111., Oct. 17, 1884. Length of "body," 27^ inches; 
width of "body," 9 inches; thickness of "body," 5 inches; length 
of apparent tail, 51 inches — tapering from 2i inches to \ inch; 
width of tail 4^ inches to \ inch — extreme tip destroyed by acci- 
dent George Sheldon. 

Nos. 253-257 belonged to Gen. Joseph Warren of Bunker Hill fame; 
sold to E. Hinsdale Williams of Deerfield (uncle of the donor) by 
Richard E. Newcomb, Judge of Probate, Greenfield, who married 
Mary Warren, the daughter of General Warren. 

253. Two Platters, India China, 12x9 inches and 10x6 inches. Pagoda 

figures Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

254. Bowl. Blue and White China Same. 

255. Two Sauce Plates Same. 

256. Eight Dinner Plates Same. 

257. One Soup Plate Same. 

258. Large Platter. Blue and white, sheep and boy. It belonged to 

Mrs. Hinsdale Williams, the donor's aunt Same. 

259. Dinner Plate. Blue and White. One kind of willow ware. 

260. Three Plates. Willow Ware Alfred Booth, Springfield. 

261. Two Dining, two Breakfast and two Tea Plates, Pink and White. 

Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

262. Four Dinner Plates and one Soup Plate. Willow Ware Same. 

263. Platter. Willow Ware Same. 

264. Two Dining Plates. Brown and white Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

265. Two Blue-edged Vegetable Dishes. .Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

266. Two Blue-edged Platters Same. 

267. Blue Platter. One kind of Willow Ware. Owned by Mrs. Lois 

(Baker) Hitchcock in 1821 Harriet Hitchcock. 

268. Light-blue Soup Plate Mrs. Nancy Comins, Hadley. 

269. Four rare old hand-painted Chinese Plates. 

Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

270. Tea Plate Mrs. Lois B. Merriman, Northfield. 

271. Small Plate Same. 



112 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

272. Two Plates Miss Amelia Smead, Manzana, Cal. 

273. Sauce Plates Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

275. Scriptural Dining Plate — "Peace on Earth" Same. 

276. Six Cup Plates Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

277. " Peace on Earth " Plate. Small. . . Mrs. Eber N. Larrabee, Greenfield. 

278. Sugar Bowl — green and pink Mrs. Snow W. Packer, Greenfield. 

280. Pink Tureen Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

281. Two Plates. Canton China Mrs. Amelia Smead, Manzana, Cal. 

282. Basket-work Fruit Dish. Cream-colored. Belonged to Lucy Frary, 

wife of Col. Joseph Stebbins, married 1774, died 1831. Grand- 
mother of the donor George Sheldon. 

284. Square Blue Teapot Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

285. Black and White Teapot. Owned by Mrs. Lois (Baker) Hitchcock in 

1821 Miss Harriet Hitchcock. 

286. Teapot. White and brown. Octagonal. Belonged to Persis (Hoyt) 

Sheldon, 1747-1829. Grandmother of the donor. .George Sheldon. 
288. Two-story White Teapot Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

290. Unclassified Fossils from Ohio. For donors see Main Hall, Nos. 760- 

770. 

291. Three Coins (1 mark, 1874, 20 pfennig, 1887, 1 cent, Amer.). 

Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

292. A Silver Medal or Coin of France. Louis XVI, 1793. Head with this 

legend, "Louis XVI. Roi Des Francois, 1793." Reverse — Genius 
of Liberty writing on a tablet a new constitution for France. Over 
this "Regne De Labor," under it "L'an 5 De La Liberte," on 
the edge "La Nation — La Loi — et Le Roi." This must be a rare 
piece Jolin Billings. 

293. Moses — A Bas-relief Samuel C. Carter, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

294. Napoleon Medal, 1853 Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

295. Wide Awake Medal, 1860. 

296. Brass Medal. Indian with bow in left hand. (See label.) 

George Sheldon. 

297. Cinder or Slag from site of old iron works in Whately about 1775. 

Chester G. Crafts, Whately. 

298. Iron Ore, picked up on the site of the old iron works at Whately. 

Same. 

299. Tureen Cover. Willow Ware Ralph Hosmer, Neponset. 

300. Blue and White Deep Soup Plate Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

301. Teapot, with sprigs of flowers Same. 

302. Soup Tureen. Blue and White George Sheldon. 

303. Soup Ladle. Blue and White Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

304. Cake Plate. Blue and White Delft George Sheldon. 

305. Two Cake Plates. White China. Belonged to wedding outfit of 

Susan (Stearns) Sheldon in 1844 Same. 

306. Two Dining Plates. White China. With same history Same. 

307. Dinner Plate. Black and White . . Eliza and Emily Thayer, Greenfield. 

308. Soup Tureen, Large. Green and White. .John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 



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309. Wooden Tankard of Ebenezer Fox who died in 1819; an heirloom 

in the family of Maj. John Arms who died in Brattleboro 1770. 

Jolm A. Goodnough, Brattleboro, Vt. 

310. Columbian Silver Half Dollar, 1893 . . Wm. H. Burt, Waterbury, Conn. 

311. Badge, Marietta Centennial, 1888 George Sheldon. 

312. " Old Home Week Celebration, Deerfield, 1901 Same. 

Case E. 

1. Wine Glass Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

2. Tumbler Mrs. Mary Ann Wright. 

3. " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

4. Glass Drinking Mug Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

5. " " " Same. 

6. " " " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

7. " " " James Smith, Whately. 

8. Large Glass Tumbler. 

9. Tumbler of Sarah Catlin, 1761 Mrs. Sarah D. Shearer, Colrain. 

10. Glass Bowl, 2 noses Miss Martha G. Pratt. 

11. Vinegar Cruet Miss Sarah Callender, Northfield. 

13. Two Glass Saltcellars Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

14. Cruet Misses Emily and Fanny Hinsdale, Bernardston. 

25. Eleven Glass Sauce Plates James Smith, Whately. 

27. Painted Glass Tumbler Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

28. Two Small Glass Jars Mrs. JuHa B. Wright, Montague. 

30. Earthen Cream Pitcher Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

32. Cream Pitcher. Belonged, about 1775, to Mrs. Deborah Tower Pratt, 

wife Josiah Pratt of Weymouth, who later removed to Windsor. 
Given by their daughters. 

Mrs. Pomroy and Miss Kate Pratt, Chicopee. 

33. Sugar Bowl Mrs. Sarah A. Pratt. 

51. Teacup and Saucer Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

53. " Mrs. Lovilla Munn. 

57, 58. Small Cups, china Mrs. Anna Bickford, Greenfield. 

59. Silver Sugar Tongs. A present to Mrs. Tirzah (Stebbins) Barnard, 
1774-1840, mother of the donor. .Mrs. Eliza B. Fithian, St. Louis, Mo. 

60. Gold Bead. Worn by Mrs. Lucy (Frary) Stebbins, 1754-1831, grand- 

mother of the donor Same. 

62. Miniature, in Gold Locket, of the donor, daughter of Joseph and 

Tirzah (Stebbins) Barnard, born 1801. Painted at Philadelphia, 
1831 Same. 

63. Sleeve Buttons. Given to Derick Barnard, in 1795, by his grand- 

mother Same. 

65. Custard Cup Mrs. Ira Glazier, Leverett. 

70. Ivory Pocket Nutmeg Grater of "Uncle Bill" Russell. To flavor the 

flip of the traveler Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

71. China Teacup and Saucer of Major Montague. 

Mrs. Ira Glazier, Leverett. 



114 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

79. Salt Shaker. 

80. Mahogany Castor Mrs. Mehitable Stratton, Gill. 

85. Teacup and Saucer. White with gilt bands, sprigs and monogram. 

Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 
91. Flask Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

100. Linen Towel of Jemima Catlin, 1761 . . .Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer, Colrain. 

101. Wedding Glove of John Harrod Cummings, 1754. 

Frank S. Weston, Windsor, Vt. 

102. Piece of Baptismal Robe. Used in 1776. In 1790 brought to Buck- 

land by Mrs. Zebulon White of Taunton. Old "Liberty" Chintz. 

Mrs. Mary F. Atkins, Buckland. 

103. Napkin Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

104. Linen. Spun and woven, in 1754, by Mrs. Anna (Stuart) Stearns of 

Brattleboro, Vt Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

105. Napkin Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

107. Silver Teaspoon George Sheldon. 

108. Sleeve Buttons, silver, linked Same. 

112. Wedding Ring, Sleeve Buttons and Needle Book. Belonged to Diana 

Hinsdale of Greenfield, married Sept. 27, 1774, to Elijah Dwight 
of Belchertown Mrs. Calvin Bridgman, Belchertown. 

113. Wheat. Taken from a mummy case. 

Miss Helen M. Messinger, Roxbury. 

114. Earrings of a Nubian Dancing Girl Same. 

115. Seeds of California "Big Trees" Same. 

116. Ornaments from a Mummy Case Same. 

120. Pieces of Silk Dresses. From Essex County, England, 1836. 

Georgiana L. Purple, Northfield. 

121. Needle Book Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

122. Plume. Worn by Rhoda W. Smith, the donor's mother, before 1807. 

Same. 

123. Needle Case. Used by the grandmother of the donor Same. 

125. Fan. Owned by Rhoda W. Smith Same. 

127. Two Silver Teaspoons George Sheldon. 

128. Silver Teaspoon. Made for Sarah Catlin, daughter of Jolm Catlin, 

born in Deerfield, 1738, who married Moses Smith, 1761. Marked 
" S. C." Mrs. Lucy D. Shearer, Colrain. 

129. Silver and Ebony Bonnet Pins. Used by Katherine, daughter of 

Col. Phinehas Wright of Northfield, born 1740; married Reuben 
Smith, 1761. These are similar to those of 1908. .Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

131. Towel. Made from tow by Mrs. John F. Stearns, Dummerston, Vt. 

Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

132. Embroidered Slipper and Kid Glove. Worn by "Little Mary" 

Hawks, who died March 6, 1876, aged 77, at the house of the donor. 

D. P. Foster, Waltham. 

133. Napkin Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

134. Piece of a dress of Sarah Worcester, 1731-1813, mother of Amos 

Cummings Frank S. Weston, Windsor, Vt. 



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135. Shoes. Worn by " Little Mary " Hawks Miss Martha G. Pratt. 

136. Baby Shoes of Cowhide. Worn by Amos Cummings, born in Deer- 

field 1767; died 1865 Frank S. Weston, Windsor, Vt. 

137. Daguerreotype of Amos Cummings Same. 

138. Napkin. Marked " M. S." — old linen. 

139. Handkerchief of "Little Mary" Hawks Miss. Martha G. Pratt. 

140. Bobbins and Silk Cord. As left by Mrs. Anna McCartha (Williams) 

Howard when she died, July 18, 1822. Her last work. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

141. Linen Lawn Mrs. Mary F. Atkins, Buckland. 

142. Linen Pillow Case. Spun and woven, about 1820, by Mrs. Eliel Allen, 

mother of the donor Miss Judith Allen. 

143. Lantern. From illumination of the Old South Meetinghouse, Boston, 

during a war demonstration in 1862. 

Miss. C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

145. Hair. From head of Eunice Allen, born in Deerfield, 1733. Toma- 

hawked at the Bars fight, Aug. 25, 1746. (See label.) 

Miss Judith Allen. 

146. Stocking. Knitted by Miss Eunice Allen when bedridden as a con- 

sequence of her wound by the Indians Same. 

147. Linen Handkerchief of Mrs. Eliel Allen. Brown and white check. 

Same. 

149. Patchwork Pocket of Hannah Learned Giles of New Salem, 1776- 

1860 Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

150. Cloth. Woven in Chicopee by Mrs. Pomroy and Miss Kate Pratt 

from tow yam spun by Mrs. Eliel Allen of Deerfield, about 1820. 

Miss Judith Allen. 
152. Linen Yam. Spun about 1780. 

Mrs. Pomroy and Miss Kate Pratt, Chicopee. 

154. Thread. Home made Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

155. Needle and Thread Case. Long in the Wellington family. 

Mrs. Eunice Starr Wellington, Boston. 

156. Cashmere Scarf Miss Caroline L. Ray. 

157. Shoe of "Little Mary" Hawks Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

158. Pocket Housewife Same. 

160. Home-spun Woolen. 

161. Old Irish CaUco Mrs. J. Y. Bergen. 

162. Muslin Shawl Mrs. Robert Childs. 

163. Holder. Made from Miss Hannah Hoyt's apron by "Aunt Betsy" 

Hitchcock Miss Eliza D. Williams. 

165. Neck Stock of Capt. Seth Lyman, Northfield. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

166. Pair of Drawers. The first worn by George Sheldon. 

Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

167. Linen Pillow Case and Cap. The latter worn by George Sheldon 

when a baby Same. 

168. Silk Shawl Mrs. Ellen (Hawks) Stebbins. 



116 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

169. Ribbon. From wedding bonnet of Mrs. Alvin Lawrence, 1836. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

175. Tortoise Shell Comb Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

176. " " " of Miss Sarah Barnard. .. .Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

177. " " " of Mrs. Maria Stowell Stebbins, married 1824; 
grandmother of the donor Miss Anna M. Stebbins. 

178. Tortoise Shell Comb Mrs. Edmund M. Potter, Greenfield. 

179-183. Tortoise Shell Combs George Sheldon. 

184. Wedding Wreath, 1827. From bridal bonnet of Mrs. Hilkiah 

Hawks Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

185. Tortoise Shell Comb. 

190. Apron, 1830. Worn by Mrs. Timothy Rogers, Bernardston. 

George Sheldon. 

191. " Mrs. Robert Childs. 

192. Checked Linen Handkerchief marked " H. C. " 

200. Baby Shoes of Henry Wells of Shelburne, 1846 George Sheldon. 

201. Hair Bracelet with Gold Clasp, 1835 Same. 

202. Teaspoon and Piece of Wedding Dress belonging to Dorothy Wilder 

who married Capt. Othniel Taylor of Buckland, about 1785. 

Miss Abbie C. Sloan, Marion, Ohio. 

205. Two Custard Cups. Belonged to mother of donor. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

206. Two Teacups and Saucers. Flowered, with a pink border. 

Mrs. Elenora Garafilia Smead, Newton. 

208. Twisted Glass Table Cruet Miss Amelia Smead, Newton. 

209. Patch Box. Pink and white Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

210. Pocket Nutmeg Grater of ivory Same. 

219. Double Thimble. Worn by the donor, whose two middle fingers grew 

together Same. 

229. Jewelry Box. Black; ornamented with gilt and colored flowers. 

230. Seal. Used by Rev. Timothy F. Rogers. 

Samuel J. Green, Bernardston. 

231. Sugar Tongs. Silver-plated. Part of Lois (Baker) Hitchcock's mar- 

riage outfit, 1821 Miss Harriet Hitchcock. 

232. Earrings of Mrs. Rhoda W. Smith, before 1807. . .Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

233. Hat Buckles of Henry Bardwell Same. 

234. Doll, of about 1810-16 George Sheldon. 

235. Works and Face of a Watch. From the ruins after the great Chicago 

fire in 1871 Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

236. Cloth. From Boston fire Same. 

237. Bulls-eye Watch. Perhaps owned by Mehuman Hinsdale, the first 

white man bom in Deerfield, certainly by his son Samuel. It came 
down in the family through Ariel, born 1805, and Ariel, his son, 
of whom it was purchased Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon. 

238. Bulls-eye Watch. Belonged to Gen. Joshua Barker of Hingham; 

silver face, and steel-facetted key, belonged to Francis Barker of 
Hingham Miss Mary Willard, Hingham. 



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239. Metallic Tractors. The great "Cure-all." Kept in the family of 

Gersham West of Gill, 1754-1823. .Mrs. E. E. Stratton, Buckland. 

240. Deerfield Souvenir Spoon Joseph H. Hollister, Greenfield. 

241. Old Bonnet Pins Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

242. Link Silver Sleeve Buttons. Belonged to Elihu Hoyt.. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

243. Sun Fan. 

244. " " Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

245. Brass Bag Clasp Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

246. Old Solid-headed Pins George Sheldon. 

247. Piece of Dress. Bought during the Revolution. 

Mrs. Cornelia Comstock, New Canaan, Conn. 

248. Specimen of Old Silk Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

249. Piece of the Dress (supposed to be the wedding dress) of Mrs. Hannah 

(Clark) McKowen, who was captured and killed by the Indians 
in Colrain, March 21, 1759; the last Indian raid in this vicinity. 
This fragment has been handed down in the form of a quilt by the 
descendants of Alexander Clark, a brother of Mrs. McKowen, and 
has traveled with them in their journeys across the continent, and 
is contributed by a granddaughter of the late Stephen and Abigail 
(Clark) Taylor of Oregon Mrs. Elva Person ? 

250. Black Lace. Owned by Mrs. Emiice, wife of Esquire John Williams, 

1830. Said to be 200 years old in 1886. 

Miss Eliza Tibbs, Middletown, Conn. 

251. Old-style Ribbon George Sheldon. 

252. Part of a Quilt. Made by a great-granddaughter of Peregrine White. 

The donor was a lineal descendant Mrs. Linda C. Greenough. 

253. Sleeves and Waist of "Little Mary" Hawks. 

254. Pewter Coat Buttons. Moulded by the donor. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

255. Button. " Long live the President." Found in front of Sheldon 

house Susie Belle Hawks. 

256. Piece of the Shirt worn by Samuel Allen when killed by the Indians 

at the Bars in 1746. . .Bishop John Williams, Middletown, Conn. 

257. Pewter Buttons and Mould Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

259. Linen Thread. Spun by donor in 1892 Mrs. Mary Miller. 

261. Wedding Ring of Hannah (Taylor) Hoyt, 1794. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

262. Shoes of Alice E. Childs, aged 15 months Mrs. Robert Childs. 

263. Rosary Mrs. Jane Maxwell, Gill. 

264. Silk Bodice Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

265. Silver Knitting Sheath. Belonged to Edith Newbold Laurie of New 

Albion, N. J., great-grandmother of the donor. Used about 1790. 

Miss Edith L. Chase, Boston. 

267. Comb with Balls Uriah N. Streeter, Greenfield. 

268. Comb worn by Arabella Stebbins Sheldon, 1812-74. 

George Sheldon. 



118 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

269. Pair Side Combs Same. 

270. Small Shell Side Comb Same. 

271 . A Pair of Clocked Stockings. Relics of great Boston fire, 1872 . . Same. 

272. 273. Linen Pillow Cases. (See label) Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

274. Neckerchief of Linen. Made by grandmother of the donor. 

Mrs. A. P. Whitman, Bolton. 

275. Fine Home-made Linen Lawn Miss Eliza A. Starr, Chicago. 

276. Linen Handkerchief. Marked "Ann M. Howard, No. 8." It was 

hemmed by Catherine E. Bardwell when 9 years old. 

Mrs. Catherine E. Bardwell Allen. 

277. Dimity Pocket Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

278. Linen Handkerchief George Sheldon. 

279. Handkerchief. Marked "D. Kimberly." Robert Childs. 

280. Pair long, Black Silk Mitts Mrs. Frank W. Stebbins. 

281. Silk. Spun by Miss Sarah Barnard about 1836. 

Miss Edith Barnard, Baltimore, Md. 

282. Thread Case Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

283. Linen Handkerchief. Brown and white check, marked "H. B. C." 
285. Castor. Oblong, four bottles on a side. 

Miss Amelia Smead, Manzana, Cal. 

287. Tea Caddy. China Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

288. Cream Pitcher, 1775 Mrs. Sarah A. Pratt. 

289. Sugar Bowl. Lowestoft Ware. 

Mrs. N. Huntington Brown, Dorchester. 

290. Patch Box. Green and white with ornamentation. 

Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

291. Patch Box. Blue with copper trimmings. Motto, "Constant to 

thee I'll ever be." Presented by Partridge Fiske to his bride, 
Lydia Dickinson, 1824. From their daughter. 

Mrs. Levi F. Page, Conway. 

292. Teapot, Lowestoft Mrs. N. Huntington Brown, Dorchester. 

293. " " Miss Amelia Smead, Manzana, Cal. 

294. Sugar Bowl, Lowestoft Same. 

295. Cream Pitcher " Same. 

296. China Teapot and Two Cups. Belonged to Samuel Richards, bom 

in Dedham, Sept. 9, 1757. He married Mary White of Boston, 
March, 1779, when these were purchased. Presented, Feb., 1889, 
by granddaughter of Samuel Richards. 

Mrs. Rebecca Guild Richards, Dedham. 

297. Glass Mustard Pot Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

298. Five Tumblers. Three large and two small. 

Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

299. Glass Lamp, with thin bottom Same. 

300. Glass Bowl, 2 noses Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

301. Large Tumbler. Belonged to Reuben Steams of Brattleboro, Vt. 

Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

302. Tumbler Charles Sturtevant. 



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303. Glass Punch Tumbler. Holds four quarts. Belonged to Barzelial 

Maynard of Templeton, bom 1734, grandfather of the donor. 

J. B. Maynard, Rockville, Conn. 

304. Large Tumbler. 

305. Glass Goblet Mrs. Caroline Arms Guiles, Bellows Falls, Vt. 

306. Four Wine Glasses Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

307. Cologne Bottle, old Same. 

308. Small Glass Lamp Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

309. Cup and Saucer. Small, with black roses. Belonged to Abigail 

Williams, 1738-1818, granddaughter of Rev. John Williams; and 
to her son, Ebenezer Hinsdale Williams, 1761-1838. From him 
they passed to the donor Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

311. Needle Case. Belonged to Fannie Giles Goodnow of New Salem, 

Mass., born 1795; died 1865. Given by a granddaughter. 

Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

312. Old-time Jewelry and Necklace Box, with inlaid velvet design. .Same. 

313. Conversation Cards. In a box with a gay bird on top Same. 

314. Calico Cape, ruffled Same. 

Case F. 

1. Pitcher John Steams, Conway. 

2. Old English Pitcher. Made in Staffordshire about 1800. 

Jesse L. Delano, Sunderland. 

3. American Liberty Pitcher Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

4. Large flowered Mug Same. 

5. Mug, with mottoes. Old Bristol Josiah Rice, Leverett. 

6. Old English Pitcher Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

7. Bacchus Pitcher James A. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

8. Ewer. Blue and white Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

9. Gravy Dish. Blue, with mythological figures. Wedgwood and 

Flaxman Mrs. Sarah A. Pratt. 

10. White Sauce Boat. Old Chelsea. Shell pattern, very rare. 

Mrs. Sarah Narbonne, Salem. 

11. China Pint Bowl, Half-pint Bowl and one Saucer. Very old. White, 

red edge. (See also Case E, Nos. 289, 292.) 

Mrs. N. Himtington Brown, Dorchester. 

12. Bowl Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

13. China Bowl Mrs. Ira Glazier, Leverett. 

14. Two Custard Cups Miss Martha G. Pratt. 

15. Four Handled Cups, and one Saucer. Lowestoft. 

Miss Amelia Smead, Manzana, Cal. 

16. Five Handled Custard Cups. Lowestoft Same. 

17. Two Cups and Saucers. Lowestoft Same. 

18. Teacup Miss Martha G. Pratt. 

19. " Mrs. F. A. Loveland, Montague. 

21. " Mrs. Lucy P. Hill. 

22. " Mrs. Lovilla Munn. 



120 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEAIORIAL HALL 

23. Teacup James A. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

24. " and Saucer Mrs. Ira Glazier, Leverett. 

25. Black and Cream-colored Sugar Bowl — Cover with a goose handle. 

Mrs. Frank Colton, Leverett. 

26. Earthen Sugar Bowl Mrs. Lovilla Munn. 

27. Centennial Glass Dish Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

28. Small Glass Pitcher Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

29. Drug Jar. Delft. Choice Same. 

30. Two Blue Coffee Cups and Saucers Same. 

31. Cup and Saucer. Blue and white. 

Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

32. Small Cup Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

33. One Cup and Saucer. Canton China. 

Miss Amelia Smead, Manzana, Cal. 

34. Two Teacups. Blue and white Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

35. Iron Teaspoon Moses, Julia and Lotta Ward. 

36. Teacup and Saucer. Blue and white .... Mrs. Nancy A. Chapin, Gill. 

37. Plate — Baltimore Exchange Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

38. China Plate— "Old Witch House," Salem. 

Miss Parsons, Kennebunk, Me. 

39. Child's Blue Plate Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

40. Saucer Mrs. Mary Ann Wright. 

52. Pitch Pipe. Used to set the key for church hymns, for years, by 

Dea. Justin Hitchcock, 1774 Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

54. Pitch Pipe. Copied by the donor from one used by Rev. Amariah 
Chandler at Waitsfield, Vt.. .Rev. Peren B. Fisk, Greensboro, Vt. 

66. Glass Plate. Made at the Warwick Glass Works and brought to Shel- 

burne by Lucy Carter, who married Dr. Bull in 1838. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

67. Glass Jar. With the same history Same. 

103. Wooden Spectacle Case Mrs. Statira Hannum. 

107. Specimens of Wood Stamping. From United States Centennial, 1876. 

Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 
113. Burning Glass Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

118. Relics. From Beers Battlefield, Northfield George Sheldon. 

119. " From Long Island Battlefield Same. 

121. ReHc. From Chew House, Germantown, Pa Same. 

122. Paper Cutter. Brought from Sorrento, Italy, by Miss Susan M. 

Lane of Cambridge Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

123. Vase. Made from Old Hancock House, Boston. 

Mrs. Ellen J. Palmer, Boston. 

124. Small Earthen Bean Pot. From Fair at Old South Meetinghouse 

during the Civil War Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

125. Shaving Box. Made from wood of Old Indian House. 

Miss Julia Hoyt. 

126. Bark and Cone. From Cahfornia Big Trees. 

Mrs. Theodore Judah, Greenfield. 



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127. Piece of Door. Brought to Bloody Brook from Hadley in 1770. 

Austin J. Billings. 

128. Pair of Pliers. Whittled from a lath taken from Thoreau's shanty, 

near Walden Pond. Concord. Cut from a single piece. 

A. W. Ransom, Buffalo, N. Y. 
132. Action of Wood Borers * 

134. Piece cut from the heart of a California Pine by the donor, July 1, 

1876 Gov. William B. Washburn, Greenfield. 

135. Piece from a California Red Wood Arthur J. Hawks. 

137. Iron Relics. Found by donor on site of the Blacksmith Shop of 

Dea. Thomas French, 1704 George Sheldon. 

140. Section of Great Boston Elm. (See label.) 

Boston City Council. 

142. Relic. From Charter Oak Sylvester E. Monnier, Greenfield. 

143. Wood. From Captain Cook's ship, in which he sailed aromid the 

world. (See label.) . . . .Mrs. Charlotte D. Goodrich, Vernon, Conn. 

144. Paper Cutter. From the Washington Elm, in Cambridge, under 

which Washington took command of the American Army, July 3, 
1775 Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

145. Relics. From Washington's tomb, Mt. Vernon. 

Mrs. George B. Hale, Gill. 

146. Relic. From flagstaff on the Hall of the Montezumas, Mexico. 

Mrs. Charlotte D. Goodrich, Vernon, Conn. 

147. Relic and Picture of the " Old Witch House," Salem. 

Dr. G. P. Farrington, Salem. 

148. Knife-handle. Made of wood from Frigate Constitution, " Old Iron- 

sides," by Col. Jolm Wilson, 1812 Mrs. Lucretia W. Eels. 

149. Goblet. Made from cedar of Lebanon. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

150. Leaf. From Magnolia tree, Mt. Vernon. The only tree known to 

have been planted by Washington Alfred Smith, Philadelphia. 

151. Wood. From Triumphal Arch, Trenton, N. J., under which Wash- 

ington passed at the reception in 1789. See attached picture. 

Mrs. Fannie A. Russell, Trenton, N. J. 

152. Leaves. From a tree planted by Lincoln at Springfield, 111. 

Rev. George H. Hosmer. 

153. Box. Made from a panel in the pulpit of the First Baptist church in 

North Leverett. Erected in 1794 Elmer Graves, Leverett. 

154. Wood. Taken from stairs in Ex-President Tyler's house, near Hamp- 

ton, Va., Dec, 1861 Dr. Charles L. Fisk, Greenfield. 

155. Twig. From Dubuque's grave Clifford R. Field, Guilford, Vt. 

156. Relic. Piece of the Alabama. From Naval Museum, Washington. 

Mrs. William Jenks, Worcester. 

157. Relic. From Independence Hall, Philadelphia. (See label.) 

Aella Green, Springfield. 

158. Buttons. Made from Independence Hall, Philadelphia. 

Miss Martha G. Pratt. 



122 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

159. Wood. From the Holland Elm, with inscription on a silver plate. 
" The Holland Club, Springfield." 

Through Aella Green, Springfield. 

163. Relic. ' From Wasliington's hitching post, Boston and Roxbury line, 

1775. (See attached correspondence.) 

Thomas H. Leavitt, Omaha, Neb. 

164. Relic. From old Meetinghouse in Hingham, "The Old Ship." 

George Sheldon. 

165. Relics. Pine splints and flint for lighting pipe and tamps, etc., 

found in a hole in the chimney of a house in Sunderland, when it 

was torn down in 1879 Samuel D. Smith, Sunderland. 

199. Spectacles. Iron-bowed, round glass, single-jointed. 

E. A. Pressons, Bemardston. 

201. Cocoons of the Silk Worm Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

202. Neck Stock John Stearns, Conway. 

203. Slave Whip. Brought home from the south during the Civil War. 

Charles O. Phillips. 

207. Pocket Book— Turkish Moses S. Ward. 

208. Spectacles, horn-rimmed lenses, steel bows Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

209. " of Paul Hawks, 1742-1814 Miss Alma Hawks. 

210. " Used by the grandfather of Josiah Gilbert of Whately, 
born 1759. Given by a great-great-granddaughter. 

Mrs. S. W. Fox, Whately. 

211. Barlow Jackknife. 

212. " " John Fitzgerald. 

213. Knife. 

215. Snuff Box of Mrs. Olivia (Stebbins) Ward as left when she died, 

Dec. 10, 1864. From her daughter Miss Lotta R. Ward. 

216. Snuff Box. 

217. Tin Snuff Box. Belonged to donor's gi-andmother Bass. 

Mrs. Susan D. Marsh, Northfield. 

218. 219. Tin Snuff Boxes Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

220. French Snuff Box Same. 

221. Silver Inlaid Snuff Box George Sheldon. 

222. Lafayette Snuff Box Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

223. Moccasins Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

224. Old Pocket Book Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

225. Persian Slippers Willie D. Monnier, Greenfield. 

226. Wedding Slippers. Mrs. Ellen S. Hawks, n^e Fisk. 

Mrs. Frank W. Stebbins. 

227. Wedding Shoes. Hepsibah Dickinson, married Elihu Field, Dec. 30, 

1774 Rodney B. Field, Guilford, Vt. 

228. Turkish Ladies' Shoes * 

229. Wedding Shoes. Mrs. Susan (Steams) Sheldon, 1844. .George Sheldon. 

230. Ladies' Shoes Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

231. Wedding Shoes. Rhoda W. Smith, married Henry Bardwell in 1807. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 



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232. Shoes of a Chinese Woman * 

233, 234. Old-fashioned High Heel Shoes. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 
235. Snuff Box. Ornamented with a hunting scene. Belonged to Polly 
Burnet of Warwick, grandmother of the donor. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

241. Spur George Sheldon. 

242. Spectacles. Belonged to the donor's grandmother Bass, of Warwick. 

Mrs. Susan D. Marsh, Northfield. 

243. Spur George Sheldon. 

260. Fragment. From the Garboard-streak of the Maryland, upon 

which General Butler and the 8th Massachusetts embarked at 
Perryville for Annapolis, April, 1861. 

Maj. Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, . 

261. Masonic Apron of Hilkiah Hawks Mrs. Frank W. Stebbins. 

262. " " Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

263. Child's Cape George Sheldon. 

264. Silk Work Bag. Owned by Mrs. Persis Sheldon as early as 1812. 

Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 
. 265. Thread and Needle Case Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

266. Work Bag Miss Clarissa Scoby, Greenfield. 

267. Wedding Shppers. Worn by Mary Wells, the wife of Lucius AUis of 

Conway, 1765 Clarence E. Crafts, Whately. 

268. Spectacles. Bought of Maj. John Russell of Greenfield. His best 

style, 1788 Joseph H. Hollister, Greenfield. 

269. Steel-bowed Spectacles, about 1775. Owned by Daniel Conant. 

Mrs. Delancy C. Kimball, Leverett. 

270. Old Green Spectacles Mrs. Nettie Eddy, Conway. 

271. Iron-mounted Spectacles, about 1800. Given the donor by Daniel 
. Pevere of Massachusetts Nathan Bates, Shaf tsbury, Vt. 

272. Spectacles. Horn-rimmed lenses, steel bows, with case. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

273. Silver-bowed Spectacles Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

274. Spectacle Case, with slide Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

275. Green Spectacles and Case Mrs. C. E. B. Allen, 

276. Revolutionary Spectacles Mrs. Hawley, Shutesbury. 

277. Remnants of a pair of Spectacles owned by Joel Baker, one of the 

first settlers of Conway. (See attached letter.) 

Dennis Steams, Conway. 

278. Steel-bowed Spectacles, with rings at end. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

279. Cigar Case, braided straw George Sheldon. 

280. Housewife Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

281. Cigar Case, leather. 

282. Curious Knife or Dirk . . .• Elihu Smead, Shelbume. 

283. Barlow Jackknife, marked "H. K. H." (Henry K. Hoyt.) 

Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 



124 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

284. Old Knife Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

285. Home-made Jackknife Henry H. Shepherd, Montague. 

286. Barlow Jackknife Same. 

287. Snuff Box of Rev. Timothy F. Rogers of Bemardston. 

Samuel J. Green, Bemardston. 

288. Two Pairs Woolen Moccasins Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

295. Wood-handled Razor Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

296. Lancet. For Army Surgeon's use Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

297. Ladies' Dressing Case Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

298. Fastening to the garret door of the Johnson House, Charter St., 

Boston, built 1766, torn down by the city of Boston, for park 
purposes, May, 1894 Patrick McGuire, Boston. 

299. Snuff Box, black Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

300. " " Belonged to Elihu Hoyt Same. 

301. " " Used by Mrs. Amos Batchelder of Conway, 1780. 

Mrs. Lansford Batchelder, Conway. 

302. " " Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt 

303. Fragment of Wall Paper. From the house of Sir William Pepperell 

at Kittery, Me Miss Mary L. Cobb, Brewster. 

304. Whale's Tooth. Engraved by sailor Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

305. Toilet Brush Same. 

306. Fleam for Bleeding ■ Same. 

307. Small Toilet Knife, green handle Same. 

308. Pen-holder Stock. From Ship Somerset. (See label.) 

Dr. Edward Finch, Greenfield. 

309. Relic. Galloupe House, Hull St., staff headquarters of General Gage 

during the Battle of Bunker Hill Patrick McGuire, Boston. 

310. Historic Wood. From Frigate Merrimac. (See label.) 

Mrs. Frank E. Peirson, Pittsfield. 

311. Historic Wood. From Fvigate Cumberland. (See label.) Same. 

312. Nail. From Jolin and Abigail Adams House. 

WiUiam G. Spear, Quincy. 

313. Engraving on Copper. Scotch Highlander. 

314. "Assyrian Cylinder." Brought from Babylon by the donor. 

Col. WiUiam Fog, New York City. 

315. Iron Napkin Ring. Made from a hinge of a door in the Old Indian 

House by the donor Simeon Phillips, Greenfield. 

316. Piece of Threshold. From the old Wright Tavern, Concord. Major 

Pitcairn and the British officers took possession of the Wright 
Tavern, April 19, 1775, after the battle at Concord Bridge. 

J. H. Tarleton, Landlord, 1899, Concord. 

317. Pieces of Boston Elm, with history of tree. 

Dr. Daniel Denison Slade, Chestnut Hill, Boston. 

318. Piece of Timber. Taken from the roof of the Old South Meeting- 

house, Boston, when repaired in 1899 George Sheldon. 

319. Piece of "Wayside Inn" floor, (taken out about 1875 when re- 

pairs were made) Mrs. Lucy F. Stone, Saxonville. 



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320. Piece of Christ Church, Boston. Built 1723. This bit taken out 1882. 

Patrick McGuire, Boston. 

321. Piece of the Napoleon Willow. From Copp's Hill Burial Ground, 

Boston. Grown from a slip of the original. (See label.) . . . .Same. 

322. Piece from Jamb in the fireplace in the Benedict Arnold House, 

New Haven, Conn. Taken out by the donor in 1902. 

Ralph Sheldon Hosmer, Washington, D. C. 

323. Wood from Jolm and Abigail Adams House. 

William G. Spear, Quincy. 

324. Fragment of the British Line-of-Battle-Ship, Somerset. 

Dr. Daniel Denison Slade, Chestnut Hill, Boston. 

325. Tiny Book. Made from a piece of the Charter Oak. 

John S. Dobson, Vernon, Conn. 

326. Fragment of "The Wayside Inn." 

Miss Ann Keyes Bartlett, Concord. 

327. Tiny Bucket. From Boston Elm Hattle A. Spaulding, Boston. 

328. Piece of old North Bridge, Concord, where was fired the " shot heard 

round the world." This bridge was taken down and some of its 
timbers used as mudsills in another built lower down the river. 
In 1870 this bridge was replaced by a stone bridge, and some of 
the mudsills were preserved by the father of the donor, who knew 
the facts A. W. Hosmer, Concord. 

389. Tooth Key, very old. Belonged to Dr. Bull. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

390. Stone. From Turrets of York Minster, England. 

Rev. Robert Crawford, D. D. 

391. Fragment. From the house of William Alden, grandson of John 

Alden. Built about 1660; destroyed 1860. 

Sheldon's Museum, Middlebury, Vt. 

392. Relic. Taken from the Willey House at the Notch, White Moun- 

tains, Aug. 24, 1829.... Mrs. Katherine Kelly Cowing, 1906. 

Case G. 

1. Brass Candlestick, 1830 Mrs. R. Wyatt, Gill. 

2. " " 1810 Charles Sturtevant. 

3. Pair of Silver-plated Candlesticks, 17 — . 

4. Brass Candlestick, 1810. 

5. " " Charles Sturtevant. 

7. Pair of Brass Candlesticks, 1800 George Sheldon. 

8. Brass Candlestick. 

10. " " Charles Sturtevant. 

11. " " Same. 

12. Brass Swinging Hand Lamp Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

13. Brass Candlestick. 

14. Pair of Brass Candlesticks Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

16. Brass Candlestick Charles Sturtevant. 

17. " " Saucer-shaped base George Sheldon. 



126 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

21. Brass Spoon, round bowl. Found on Parson Doolittle's lot in North- 

field, when the V. & M. railroad was graded. 

Miss Mary Belcher, Northfield. 

22. Pair Shoe Buckles Osmond Hutchins. 

23. Shoe Buckles George Sheldon. 

24. " " Same. 

25. " " David Sheldon. 

26. " " George Sheldon. 

27. " " Mrs. Susan S. Hastings. 

28. " " •. George Sheldon. 

29. " " Same. 

30. Small Steel Knee Buckles. Taken from wall of parlor of the Sheldon 

house in 1875, when it was repaired Same. 

31. Brass Shoe Buckles Same. 

32. Knee Buckles. 

33. Silver Plated Shoe Buckles George Sheldon. 

34. " " " " with leather covers. 

HolHs D. Graves, Sunderland. 

35. Gold Plated Shoe Buckles. 

36. Shoe Buckles George Sheldon. 

37. Brass Shoe Buckles Israel Lyman, Northfield. 

39. Knee Buckles, iron Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

40. " " round, silver-plated Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

41. Cup. Received by Thomas Bardwell of Deerfield, as a premium for the 

best two-year-old colt, at Deerfield Cattle Show, 1825. From a niece, 
1902 Harriet D. Bardwell, Walpole, N. H. 

42. Hookah. From Turkey, richly ornamented by inlaid silver * 

44. Town of Deerfield Official Scales. For gold and silver coin, about 1745. 

Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

45. Money Scales. Used by Barnabas Billings, father of donor. 

Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

46. Scales for Specie. Before 1752 Henry Johnson, Greenfield. 

47. " " " Old Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

48. Pair of Curtain Knobs Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

Case H. 
1. Pewter Platter. Brought from England, handed down through the 
Allen family. Traditionally, 500 years old. 

James F. Allen, Northfield. 

2, 3. Pewter Tankards. Used in the First Church of Deerfield, founded 

1686 First Parish, Deerfield. 

4. Pewter Christening Bowl. Used in the Orthodox Church of Deerfield, 

founded 1838 Orthodox Church. 

5. Two Pewter Communion Plates, 1838 Orthodox Church. 

21. Tea Plate Mrs. Eimice K. Brown. 

22. Teacup Mrs. JuHa A. Allen. 

23. Sauce Plate Same. 



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24. Teacup Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

25. Tea Plate Mrs. Lois B. Merriman, Northfield. 

26. Saucer Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

27. Teacup and Saucer Same. 

30. Dining Plate. From set of Catherine (Alexander) Reed, 1815. (See 

No. 39.) Mrs. Abbie H. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

31. Soup Plate. Dark blue Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

34. Small Platter Same. 

35. Platter. Delft ware. Part of Molly Bull's " setting out " in 1785. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

36. Gravy Boat. Light blue and white Mrs. William Sheldon. 

37. Plate. Blue and white. 

39. Dining Plate. (See No. 30.) . . . .Mrs. Abbie H. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

40. Platter. Willow Pattern Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

50. Blue Dish EHsha Stratton, Northfield. 

51. Platter Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

52. Gravy Dish. Little Boy Blue; lion handle Mrs. Mary R. Nims. 

53. Cream Pitcher Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

54. Platter. Dark blue Same. 

55. Blue Dish. From a set bought in 1832 by the donor's mother. Said 

by Mr. Prime of New York to be of a remarkably fine coloring. 

George Sheldon. 

60. Teacup Mrs. Julia A. Allen. 

61. White Pepper Box Mrs. Harriette C. Rice, Leverett. 

62. China Saucer James A. Reed, Dummerston, Vt. 

63. Teacup and Saucer Mrs. Julia A. Allen. 

65. Nappy of Molly Bull, 1785. (See No. 35.) 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

70. Platter Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

71. Sauce Plate. Brown and white Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

72. Plate. Brown and white. Scalloped edge Same. 

73. " With gift motto. (See also Nos. 79, 95.) 

Mrs. John Stearns, Conway. 

75. Dining Plate. Black and white. 

76. Gravy Boat. Light blue and white Mrs. William Sheldon. 

77. Plate. Brown and white, scalloped Mrs. Julia A. Allen. 

78. Platter Same. 

79. Plate. Gift motto Mrs. John Stearns, Conway. 

80. Large Platter. Blue and white. Flowered. 

Caleb Clesson Field, M. D., Leominster. 

81. Platter Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

82. " Willow ware Mrs. Anna Bickford, Greenfield. 

83. 84. Two Decanters Lucy P. Hill. 

90. Large Platter. Blue and white Mrs. David Rice, Leverett. 

91. " " " " " Landscape. Quintus Allen, Greenfield. 

92. Sugar Bowl. White and gilt Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

93. Cream Pitcher Same. 



128 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

95. Plate, (iift motto Mrs. Jolm Steams, Conway. 

96. " Elisha Stratton, Northfield. 

97. Dining Plate Mrs. Lois B. Merriman, Northfield. 

98. Cup and Saucer Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

99. Gravy Tureen. Willow ware. 

Miss Amelia Smead, Manzana, Cal. Formerly of Slielburne. 

100. Cream Jug. Dark blue with flowers . Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

101. Gra\'y Boat. Cream-colored Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

104. Pewter Tankard. First Church in Greenfield. 

Mrs. Alice Newcomb Smead. 

Case I. 

Corner Cupboard or Buffet. Taken from the house built by the town 
for Rev. John Williams on his return from captivity in 1707. This 
is the only- article in Memorial Hall for which any money has been 
paid by the P. V. M. Association. 
(Nos. 1-10 are on top of Case I.) 

1. Yellow and White Beer Mug. Used by Mrs. Nancy H. Williams. 

Miss Abigail Barnard. 

2. Coffee Pot. Flowered Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

3. " " Blue and white Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

4. Mug. Blue and white Mrs. Sarah A. Pratt. 

5. Cream-colored Coffee Pot. 

6. Yellow and White Mug with black markings. 

Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 
10. Coffee Pot Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

12. Plate Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

13. Six Custard Cups. Rare Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

14. Two " " Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

15. Plates. From set of Caroline Sheldon, bought 1831. 

Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

16. Plate. From a set of Levi Lincoln, Governor of Mass., 1825-34. 

Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

17. Green Plate Misses Emily and Fanny Hinsdale, Bernardston. 

18. Plate Mrs. Theodore Judah, Greenfield. 

19. Plate of Rev. Roger Newton, 1761 Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

25. Saltcellar Mrs. Susan D. Marsh, Northfield. 

26. Egg Cup Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

27. Castor. Queen's ware. Ornamental pattern around the edge. 

Mrs. Janette A. Goodnough. 

28. Pickle Leaf Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

29. Blue Saltcellar of India China. Belonged to the daughter of Joseph 

Warren of Bunker Hill fame Mrs. Mary -Ann Wright. 

30. Plate. Same as No. 15 George Sheldon. 

31. Old Delft Plate. From Holland. Belonged to Mary Wells of Deer- 

field who married Lucius Allis of Conway, April 14, 1765. 

Mrs. Z. A. Lyman, Charlemont. 



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32. Tea Plate oidov. Le\-i 1 iiicolii Mrs. L. W. Rice, GreenfieM. 

33. Phite. (See No. 31 .) Mrs. Z. A. Lyman, Charleinoiit. 

34. Willow Plate Mrs. Cliarlotte 1). Cioodrich, Vernon, Conn. 

44. Independence Plate Mrs" Elislia Stratton, Northfield. 

45. Plate. McDonough's Victory Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

46. " Wedgwood Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

47. Breakfast Plate. Wedgwood. 

Misses Emily and Fanny Hinsdale, Beniardston. 

48. Plate. Of same set as No. 46 Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

49. " Of same kind as No. 44 Mrs. Elisha Stratton, Northfield. 

50. Dish. With same history as No. 29 Mrs. Mary Ann Wright. 

51. Custard Cup of Mrs. Caroline Sheldon Mrs. Susan S. »Sheldon. 

52. Plate. Willow ware Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

53. Dish Mrs. Anna Bickford, Greenfield. 

54. Plated Teaspoon Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

55. Sauce Dish •. Mrs. L. "^V. Rice, Greenfield. 

56. Gravy Dish and Ladle of Rev. Roger Newton Same. 

57. Strainer for Fish Platter Same. 

58. Dinner Plate Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

60. Platter. Willow ware. Brouglit from England before 1780 by Mrs. 

Clark of Greenfield Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

62. Plate Mrs. George F. Alexander, Northfield. 

63. Dining Plate. Wedgwood Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

76. Pepper Box. 

77. Sauce Plate Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

79, 80. Hand-painted Old Chinese Plates. Rare and valuable. 

Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

82. Blue Six-legged Teapot. Belonged to Caroline (Stebbins) Sheldon, 

1789-1865, mother of donor. George Sheldon. 

83. Cup and Saucer. Belonged to the same set Same. 

84. Breakfast Plate. Same set Same. 

85. Light Blue Nine-inch Plate. Wa.shington Crosshig the Delaware. 

LTsed in the family of Betsy (Kimberley) Hitchcock, 1789-1878, 
mother of the donor. . .Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

86. Delft Plate. Same history as No. 85 Same. 

87. Dining Plate Mrs. Charlotte D. Goodrich, Vernon, Conn. 

Case J. 

1. ■ Cream Pitcher Miss Alma Hawks. 

2. China Teapot. Belonged to the great-grandmother of the donor. 

Miss Sarah Callender, Northfield. 

3. Beer Mug Mrs. Lois Merriman, Northfield. 

4. Mug, 1790 Mrs. Susan S. Sheldon. 

5. Teapot Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

6. Banded Pitcher Josiah Rice, Leverett. 

7. Mug with nose, lilue and white bands George Sheldon. 

10. Teapot Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 



130 CATALOGITE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

11. Teapot Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

12. Plate Same. 

13. Soup Plate Same. 

14. Cream Pitcher Mrs. Direxa Nims. 

15. Saucer Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

16. Sugar Bowl Mrs. Direxa Nims. 

IS. " Tongs Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

19. Bowl Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

20. Plate. Used in the old Nims tavern, 1824 Same. 

22. " Same. 

23. Bowl Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

24. Tea Plate. Wedgwood Same. 

25. Sugar Bowl Miss Abigail Barnard. 

26. Bowl Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

31. " Belonged to Lucy (Frary) Stebbins, 1754-1831. 

George Sheldon. 

40. " From the cellar of the Pocumtuck House after tlie fire of 1879. 

Same. 

41. Sugar Bowl. Lustre ware Miss Sarah Callendcr, Northfield. 

42. Teapot. Lustre ware Same. 

43. " English, 1780-1800 George Sheldon. 

47. Toddy Stick Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

48. Decanter. 
50. 

55. Teapot Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

56. Sugar Bowl. Owned by Mrs. Persis Barnes of Brookfield, mother of 

the donor Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

57. Teapot Same. 

60. " White, with green and red sprigs. 

71. " Mrs. William Sheldon. 

72. " Mrs. Frank W. Stebbins. 

73. " Tropical scene in light blue. .Mrs. Lois B. Merriman, Northfield. 

75. " Mrs. Julia A. Allen. 

76. " Light blue and white landscape. 

77. Blue Teapot. WMth pictured house and beehive. 

Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

78. Two Blue Teapots. Flower-pot and trees Same. 

79. Pair of Saltcellars and an odd one Same. 

80. Glass Saltcellar Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

81. Small Lustre Pitcher Same. 

82. Teapot. Lustre Ware. 

83. Mustard Pot Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

84. Cruet Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

85. Sugar Bowl. Chinese Pagoda pattern. Old Worcester. 

Mrs. Harriet C. Howe, Pasadena, Cal. 

86. Teapot. Swan handle on lid. About 1750. .. .Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

87. Round Sugar Bowl. Blue and white . . Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 



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88. Teapot. About 1750 Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

90. White Sauce Plate and Cream Pot. A part of the wedding outfit of 

Susan (Stearns) Sheldon, Avhen she was married to the donor in 
1844 George Sheldon. 

91. Round Teapot. Blue and white Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

92. Pickle Dish Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

93. Gravy Dish. Lion liandles Mrs. Sarah A. Pratt. 

94. Sauce Tureen Miss Martha G. Pratt. 

95. Sugar Bowl Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

96. 97. Cake Plates Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

98. Sugar Bowl. Part of the wedding outfit of tlie donor when she was 

married to Dr. George Wright, in 1825. 

Mrs. Julia B. Wright, Montague. 

99. Sugar Bo\\l. Dark blue with basket. .Miss Clarissa Scoby, Greenfield. 

100. Butter Dish. Cow's head handle Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

101. Metal Sugar Bowl Mrs. Cieorge A. Arms, Greenfield. 

102. Cream Pitcher Same. 

103. Blue Bowl Mrs. Nancy A. Chapin, Gill. 

104. " " Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

105. Curious Delft Bowl Mrs. Sarah A. Dustin, Brattleboro, Vt. 

106. Teapot. Black and white landscape. 

107. Gra\'y Dish and Ladle. Green and white. 

Case K. 

This Case contains: — Glass Saltcellar. 

Pink-bordered Teapot and Glass Quart Tumbler. 

Plate. Lowestoft. Two Wine Glasses. 

Tea Caddy with Cover and Plate. Cup and Saucer with yellow 

Hot-water Jug. Lowestoft. band. 

Sugar Bowl. Cup and Saucer, white with 

Slop Bowl. colored border and sprigs. 

Two Cups and Saucers. India Plate, blue landscape on 

Four Custard Cups. white. 

Cake Plate. Franklin Maxims Cup. 

Glass Mustard Pot with Glass Learned Dog Cup, yellow. 

Top. 
Male and Female Figures, cjuaint ornaments, yellow and blue. 
Nearly all the above belonged to Persis (Hoyt) Sheldon, born 

Feb. 28, 1747; married, June 12, 1769, John Sheldon; died Nov. 2, 

1829. (h-andmother of the donor George Sheldon. 

Case O. 

1. Marking Tool witii Case. Supposed by donor to have been used by 

Godfrey Nims, one of the earliest settlers of Deerfield. Known to 
have been owned by his grandson, Thomas Nims, 1718-93. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

2. Ganger's Pocket Marking Tool. Used also by carpenters, coopers and 

sawyers George Sheldon. 



132 CATALOGUE OF RELIC'S IN MEMORIAL HALL 

3. Harness Makers' Tools Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

4. Hantl-niade Lock and Key. llie work of DavitI Shaw. 

Horatio Shaw, Plainfield. 

5. Door Lock. Dug up in Greenfield, 1885. .James M. Porter, Greenfield. 
G. Spring Chest Lock. Made by a German locksmith before 1733. Like 

the one which lay in ambush for Ginevra. . .Emoi-y Lee, Greenfield. 

7. Lock Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

8. Braes-handled Door Lsitch Same. 

9. Hand-w roufilit Spike. From the Old Deerficld Academy, 179S. 

George Sheldon. 

10. Spike. From the Upper Locks of the Canal, Montague, built 1804. 

Albert Smith, Gill. 

11. Knife Charles Jones. 

12. Hand-made Nails. From the old Field barn, at Gill. 

Albert Smith, (:;ill. 

13. Garden Tool. ITsed at the I'ellenberg Academy, Greenfield, 1828. 

Rev. Jolni Shepardson, Greenfield. 

14. Marking Tool Marshall S. Stearns, Northfield. 

15. Two Gauges. Beknigiiig to the set of Carpenter's Tools (see MH, 56G). 

Charles Jones. 
10. Folding Rule of William Russell Mrs. Maiy R. Nims. 

17. Two Hand-made Padlocks Solcn Wiley, Greenfield. 

18. Lock and Door Latch combined. . . .Mrs. Julia Fj. Robbins, Shelburne. 

19. Knot of Wood * 

20. Indian Corn, turned to charcoal. The house of William Arms of L^eer- 

field, 1692-1774, was burned in 1767. According to Mrs. Sylvia 
Munn, his wife was smothered by an avalanche of grain from an up- 
per floor. This story was recently confirmed by finding a large pile 
of charred grain while digging a cellar on the site of the buined 
house. Some of this grain was taken up by the donor. 

George Sheldon. 
SO. Brass and Copper Buttons, aliout the time of the Revolution. .Same. 

81 . Eighteenth-century Buttons Same. 

82. Gilt Coat and Vest Buttons Same. 

S3. Silver-plated Buttons Same. 

84. Brass Buttons Same. 

85. Pewter and Other Buttons. Made in Deerfield. .Nathaniel Hilchcock. 

86. String of Buttons Same 

87. Old-style Buttons ^^'illiam ( ). Taylitr, Shelburne. 

89. Wooden Ball. For tip of Ox Horn Hemy ^^'ells, Shelljurne. 

90. Hand-made Tacks, l^sed in upholstering \)y our forefathers. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

91. Corn in which each kernel has an independent husk. 

Elisha Hunt, Ashfield. 

92. Continental Brass Button Joseph Hockram. 



NEEDLEWORK ROOM 

1. Cooke Family Register. A sampler made by Maria Cooke, Hadley, 

about 1807 Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

2. Painting on Velvet (Flower Piece) Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing. ' 

3. Sampler. Marshall Family Record. 

4. Pattern for a Hearth Rug. Belonging to Nancy (Hawks) Williams, 

Deerfield, 1835. It was to be finished with crewels worked over 
small, roimd sticks. The colors were indicated by slips of paper. 

Miss Mary Hoyt Gale, Cleveland, Ohio. 

5. Copy of a Prehistoric Engraving upon a Rock in a Canyon near San 

Jacinto, Cal. Made from original by the donor, 1903. 

Mrs. Mary E. S. Stevens, South Bridgton, Me. 

6. Oriental Tapestry * 

9. Sampler. Made by Sidney Hawks, 8 years old, 1794. From a grand- 
daughter Mrs. Marian (Childs) Stebbins. 

10. Painting on Velvet (Fruit Piece). 

Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing, Brattleboro, Vt. 

11. Baby's Linen Cap. Embroidered by "Little Mary" Hawks in 1818, 

for the child of Mrs. Emilia (Stebbins) Houghton. 

Mrs. Mary (Houghton) Sawyer, St. Albans, Vt. 

12. Stiletto used in making the cap. (No. 11.) Same. 

13. Mourning Piece. Worked by the donor's mother. . .Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

14. Sampler of Caroline Stebbins, 1798 George Sheldon. 

17. Embroidered Fan Miss Juha Whiting. 

18, 19. Frame and Bodkin for embroidering lace Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

20. Lace Frame George Sheldon. 

21. Lace Frames Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

23. Leather Case for Knitting Needles Same. 

25. " The Shepherdess of the Alps." A needlework picture made by 

Emily Trowbridge, mother of Bishop John Williams of Connecticut. 
Bishop John Williams, Middletown, Conn. 

26. Framed Needlework Picture. Made by Miss Polly Sheldon, born 1794. 

George Sheldon. 

27. Needlework Picture. Made before her marriage, at Deerfield Academy, 

by the donor's mother, Aurelia (Stebbins) Saxton, in 1810. 

Mrs. Caroline S. Watson, Boston. 

28. \ Copy of a Design of Lucy Lane. Done by the Deerfield Society of 

Blue and White Needlework, 1906. 

Ellen Miller and Margaret C. Whiting. 



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29. Veil, four feet square. Wrought mostly by the hght of a tallow dip, 
about 1836, by Caroline (Stebbins) Sheldon, a Deerfield farmer's 
wife, mother of the donor. One-fourth of it is shown. 

George Sheldon. 

3U. "Mount Vernon." A needlework picture, made by Caroline Stebbins, 
while a student in this building, about 1804 Same. 

31 . Lace Shawl. Made by the donor in 1839. She was a daughter of Joseph 

and Tirzah (Stebbins) Barnard, born Feb. 15, 1801. The extent of 
the embroidered border is three yards. 

Mrs. Eliza (Barnard) Fithian, St. Louis, Mo. 

32. Old Water Color and Needlework(?) by Anna M. Williams, aged 

twelve Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

34. Table, two folding leaves. 

35. Chair. Green, high back, elm bark seat. 

Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

36. " Red, four vertical slats, basket bottom. 

37. Fire Board. From the Rufus Saxton house, fireplace and andirons in 

fresco William R. Saxton. 

38. Fire Board. From the house of the donor, painted by the British spy, 

who also painted the panel (Boston Harbor) in the Council Room 
(No. 8) William E. Ryther, Bernardston. 

Case A. 

1 . Sampler (1740) of Abigail Williams (aged ten years), daughter of War- 

ham, and granddaughter of Rev. John Williams, "The Redeemed 
Captive." Legend: "Abigail Williams is my name and with my 
needle I wrought the same And if my skill it had been better I 
should have mended every letter." . .Miss Maria J. Marshall, Weston. 

2. Old Sampler Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

3. Sampler of Sophia Smith, 1774 Mrs. Lavinia M. Smith. 

4. " Made by Judith Allen when a child; born 1777. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen, 

5. Sampler. Made by Ruth Russell of Greenfield, 1814. 

Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

6. Sampler of Mary Sheldon, 1808 George Sheldon. 

9. Wedding dress of Mrs. Catherine Knapp Alexander, 1800. 

Mrs. Susan (Steams) Sheldon. 

10. Cap of Sarah Worcester, 1731-1813, mother of Amos Cummings. 

Frank S. Weston, Windsor, Vt. 

1 1 . Baby's Waist. Made in 1797, for a baby who was living in 1886. 

Mrs. A. P. Whitman, Bolton. 

12. Dimity Work Bag Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

13. Napkin. Spun and woven by Mrs. Sarah Rankin in 1813. 

Mrs. Eunice C. Rankin, Greenfield. 

14. Handkerchief marked C. H. 

15. Clocked Stocking. Made by Mrs. Anna Williams Smith of Martha's 

Vineyard Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 



NEEDLEWORK ROOM 135 

16. Thread Case. Made and used by Mrs. Rhoda W. Bardwell, mother of 

the donor Miss Catherine E. B. Bardwell. 

17. Christening Robe. Over one hundred years old, worn by Mrs. Elizabeth 

Dwight of Belchertown Mrs. Calvin Bridgman, Belchertown. 

18. Pair of Men's White Linen Knit Gloves Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

19. Pair Linen Stockings Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing, Brattleboro, Vt. 

20. Painting on Cotton. Part of an eighteenth-century valance. 

Mrs. George W. Sypher, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 

Case B. 

1. Toilet Cover. Stuffed Work Mrs. Caroline A. Watson, Boston. 

2. Bead Bag Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

3. " " Worked by the donor about 1832 on linen cloth spun by 
her grandmother Miss S. M. Champney. 

4. Pocket Book. Made by Elijah Williams, about 1800. 

Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. 

5. Worked Pocket Book Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

6. Work Bag Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

7. Needlework Medallion. Made by Sally Allen, Williamsburg, 1809. 

8. Bead Bag. Knitted by Miss Sarah J. Barnard. .Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

9. Embroidery. 

10. Thread. Spun by Hannah Barnard, daughter of Samuel, born May 28, 

1773; married Elijah Williams, 1803 Mrs. Mary A. Williams. 

11. Cotton Thread. As sold at the Old Ware Store before the days of spools. 

George Sheldon. 

12. Knot of Linen and Cotton Floss. Spun by the donor's aiuit, Content 

(Smith) Hutchinson, Brookfield, Vt., bom 1764. 

Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

13. Silk. Spun by Miss Sarah J. Barnard from silkworms raised in Deer- 

field in 1828 Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

14. Patchwork. Made by Mrs. Southworth of Plymouth, Mass., when she 

was one hundred years old Edward S. Hosmer, Chicago, 111. 

15. Embroidered Pocket. Made by Mrs. Eimice, wife of Capt. Seth Lyman 

of Northfield, 1770 Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

16. Worked Pocket Book. 

18. Thread Case Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

19. " " Made and used by Mrs. Catherine W. Smith of Northfield, 
grandmother of the donor Miss Catherine E. Allen. 

20. Thread Case Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

21. Patchwork Pocket. Made by the grandmother of the donor's husband. 

Mrs. A. A. Rankin, Greenfield. 

22. Baby's Cap Mrs. Caroline A. Watson, Boston. 

23. Wedding Stockings of Samuel Hinsdale. Married Jan. 15, 1807. He 

was the great-grandson of Mehuman Hinsdale, who was the first 
white child born in Deerfield Miss S. E. Bullock, Greenfield. 

24. Bonnet Braid. Worn in 1810. Braided by Miss Sukey Eames, eighty- 

two years old, of South Framingham. . .Martha N. Fogg, Greenfield. 



136 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

25. Embroidered Apron Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

26. Embroidery Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

27. Fine Kerchief Mrs. Sarah A. Dustin, Brattleboro, Vt. 

28. Embroidery Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

29. Implement for Sphtting Straw. Used in braiding hats and bonnets. 
29 J. Split Rye Straw for braiding hats and bonnets. 

30. Embroidered Pocket Book of Persis (Hoyt) Sheldon, 1747-1829. 

George Sheldon, 

31. Bead Purse Mrs. Mary Dickinson, Leverett. 

32. Embroidered Scarf Mrs. Katharine K. Cowing, Brattleboro, Vt. 

Case C. 
1. Part of a set of Linen Tent Bed Curtains and Co\mterpane. Made by 
Miss Lucy Lane, Littleton, 1760-65. The flax was carded, spun, 
woven and bleached for the cloth; the floss carded, spun and colored 
with her own hands, the whole embroidered by hand, no two pat- 
terns being alike Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

Case D. 

This cabinet was made by Horatio Hoyt and used by David Starr 

Hoyt for his collection William H. Bartlett, Peoria, Ariz. 

1. Outfit for Making Pillow Lace. Used by Miss Hannah Heard, who 
married William Barnard in Canada in 1805. She probably learned 
the art in a French convent. Given by a great-granddaughter. 

Miss Edith Barnard, Baltimore, Md. 

2, 3. Samplers Miss Mary Hazen, Thomaston, Conn. 

4. Sofa Pillow Cover. Made by Harriet Martineau, to be sold at a fair 
in Philadelphia; bought by Mrs. Catherine B. Yale. 

Mrs. Madeline Y. Wynne. 



ANTEROOM 

1. Ancient Dulcimer Rev. A. B. Peffers, West Hawley. 

2. Fragments of Sculptured Marble and Other Relics in case. From the 

"Seven Cities of Asia," collected by the donor. (For details, see 
labels.) Rev. Lyndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

3. Silk Banner. Montague Whig Association, 1844. On one side is a 

picture of Turners Falls with the motto " Protection makes the wheels 
go roimd," on the reverse, an Eagle J. S. Richardson, Montague. 

4. Work Basket. Square, with cushioned lid . . G. W. Davenport, . 

5. Autograph Bed Quilt. 

6. "Lily Chest," which was used in the family of Dr. Shepherd of Mon- 

tague. An old and odd affair Henry Shepherd, Montague. 

7. Patchwork Quilt and Pieces of Old Print. (In " Lily Chest.") 

Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

8. Apphqu6 Bed Quilt Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

9. Green Bed Curtain. Belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mary 

(.\rms) Harvey, 1747-85 Miss Jane Merrill. 

10. Quilting Bars. 

11. Washstand. Part of the marriage outfit of Isabella (Hoyt) Williams. 

Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 



BED ROOM 

1. Four-post Tent Bedstead. Belonged to the donor's grandmother, 

Caroline (Stebbins) Sheldon, married 1810. .Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

2. Home-made Linen Sheets, Pillow Cases and Bedtick. 

Mrs. Mary (Russell) Nims. 

3. Woolen Bed Quilt. Quilted in elaborate patterns. 

Mrs. Laura (Baker) Wells. 

4. Pink Bed Curtains Miss Hannah M. Bryant. 

5. Tufted Bed Spread, about 1800 Mrs. Nettie Eddy, Conway. 

6. Feather Bed. Once the property of Mrs. Ruby (Graves) Stebbins. 

Mrs. Carrie S. Ward. 

7. Cradle. Made about 1833 by Wyman H. Stebbins for his daughter, 

Frances Mrs. Laura W. Wilkinson, Chicago, 111. 

8. Copper Warming Pan Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

9. Hourglass Work Stand. Belonged to Mrs. Maria S. Hitchcock. 

Mrs. Carrie S. Ward. 

10. Carved Oak Chest. Brought from England about 1676, by William 

Arms, the first of the name in the Colony, and the ancestor of all the 
Armses in the coimtry Aaron Arms, Bellows Falls, Vt. 

11. Mirror Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

12. Corner Washstand Mrs. Mary Ann (Stebbins) Wright. 

13. Wash Bowl and Pitcher Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

14. Blue Wash Bowl Mrs. Hannah (Barnard) Jenks. 

15. " " " Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

16. Blue and White Wash Bowl Miss C. Alice Baker. 

17. " " " Chamber Same. 

18. Earthen Chamber Alfred Cobb. 

19. Blue Spittoon. Belonged to Mrs. Page of Swansea, N. H., 1745. 

Mrs. Rebecca B. Brigham. 

20. Small Mirror in Mahogany Frame Mrs. Julia H. Long, Greenfield. 

21. Bed Pan Mrs. Susan Embury, Greenfield. 

22. Dimity Window Curtains. Belonged to Mrs. Catherine A. Stearns. 

Mrs. Sarah A. Dustin, Brattleboro, Vt. 

23. Curtain Knobs. In use by donor's mother, 1809. 

Mrs. Susan (Stearns) Sheldon. 

24. Netted Cotton Fringe for " Four Poster " Charles Sturtevant. 

25. Chair Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

26. " Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

27. Dressing Table Cover Mrs. Evmice K. Brown. 



BED KOOM 139 

28. Mirror George Sheldon. 

30. Basket and Pincushion Mrs. Mary (Russell) Nims. 

31. Pincushion in Glass Stand, 1840. 

32. Tin Comb Case William O. Taylor, Shelbume. 

33. Silk Bag Alfred Cobb. 

34. Curling Tongs Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

36. " " Belonged to Mrs. Catherine A. Stearns, Dummerston, 
Vt Mrs. Susan (Steams) Sheldon. 

37. Crimping Irons Lyman Gilbert, Northfield. 

41. Chair Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

43. Warming Pan. Part of the marriage outfit of Hepzibah Dickinson, 

1774 Rodney B. Field, Guilford, Vt. 

44. Chair Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

46. High Case of Drawers. From the wedding outfit of Mary Stebbins of 

Belchertown, grandmother of the donors; she married Samuel Hins- 
dale, Jan. 8, 1772 Fanny and Emily Hinsdale, Bernardston. 

48. Warming Pan Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

49. Chest and Drawers. Marked " S. H." (Sarah Hawks, 1701-83), mar- 

ried Dr. Thomas Wells, 1726. Only one known with three drawers. 
An heirloom in the Wells family George Sheldon. 

50. Copper Pig. From Scotland; ancestor of the warming pan, and hot 

water bottle Same 

51. Pair of Sheets. Hemmed, about 1825, by Eunice Everett, who married 

Dexter Marsh of Greenfield George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

53. Square, Three-legged Light Stand Mrs. L. W. Rice, Greenfield. 

54. Bible. Belonged to Rhoda Stebbins Mrs. D. C. Kimball, Leverett. 

55. 56. Brass Snuffers and Tray Levi W. Rice, Greenfield. 

57, 58. Brass Candlesticks Dickinson Est. 

60. Rocking Chair Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

61. Arm Chair. Covered with old chintz — oak leaf and acorn pattern — 

from Calista (Childs) Hitchcock Samuel T. Grout. 

62-64. Rag Rugs Miss C. Alice Baker. 



NEWTON ROOM 

The contents of this department we received by will from 
Solon L. Newton of Greenfield in 1901. No catalogue was ever 
made by Mr. Newton, and no data have been found upon which 
one can now be based. With the exception of the Jacobean 
Cabinet, we do not know the history of a single article. This 
cabinet was handed down in an old English family of New York, 
and was sold by one of the last generation to Mri Newton. 

Here may be seen many choice specimens of brass and china, 
and Derhaps the best collection of pewter in the country. 



MILITARY ROOM 

1. Draft Cylinder. Used in drafting soldiers in 9tli Congressional Dis- 

triet, during the Civil War, 1861-65. . . .William Guinan, Greenfield. 

2. Gen. Winfield Scott and his Generals. 

J. E. Thompson, South Hadley Falls. 

3. Testimonial to William Leonard, in 1870, from the Commonwealth 

of Massachusetts, in honor of his patriotism in serving in the United 
States Navy during the Civil War. 

4. President Lincoln and his Cabinet. 

J. E. Thompson, South Hadley Falls. 

5. Abraham Lincoln - George Sheldon. 

6. Lincoln's Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865. 

Rev. Edgar Buckingham. 

7. Portrait of James A. Garfield. Draped as on his funeral day. 

James W. Champney. 

8. Garfield ]\Iemorial Tablet Mrs. Elizalieth Childs, Buffalo, N. Y. 

9. Gen. U. S. Grant James W. Champney. 

10. Lincoln Memorial. 

11. Musket. Carried by Moses Nelson during War of 1812. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

12. Flint Lock Musket. Said to have been used in Concord Fight. 

James S. Pichard, Northfield. 

13. Flint Lock Musket. Belonged to the donor's father, Adj. John J. 

Graves Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 

14. Musket. 

15. Supposed to be a Saxon Battle Axe Consider Dickinson Estate. 

16. Flint Lock Musket. Supposed to be used in the Revolutionary War. 

Prof. James D. Crawford, Champaign, 111. 

17. Buffalo Gvm. Foimd by donor on the plains of Montana. On the 

stock is a notch for everj^ buffalo killed. 

Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

18. Cavalry Sabre. Found at Winchester, Va., after the battle, Sept. 18, 

1864. (See label.) 

Past Commander Harry S. Belmont, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

19. Cavalry' Sabre. From the BattlefioUl of Antietam. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

20. Sword without Scabbard * 

21. Bayonet Rev. I^yndon S. Crawford, Topsfield. 

22. " War of 1812 Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon. 



142 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

23. Sword Blade * 

24. Spanish Rapier Ezra L. Holton, Northfield. 

25. Specimen of tlie Breatl luniished the people of Paris during the Siege 

of 1871 Frederick D. Williams, Boston. 

2G. Coat. Worn by James C. Hitchcock, 27th Regt. Mass. Vol., Co. C, 
while Orderly to a Staff Officer. Died at Anderson ville Prison, Ga., 
1864. Given by his father Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

27. Knapsack. Carried by John M. Cambpbell, Co. D, 50th Mass. Vol. 

Infantry. Enlisted Nov. 5, 1861. Marked "N. E. D°." 

Mrs. Nancy D. Campbell. 

28. Knapeack. Marked "3d. Reg. 2d Brig. 4th Div." 

29. " Taken from Fort Walker, Hilton Head, S. C, after its 
capture by United States naval forces, Nov. 7, 1861. It is marked 
"J. B. Thomason, Rook Hill, S. C." 

John L. Wells, New York City. 

30. Photographs of John Brown and Mary, his wife; his Fort at Harper's 

Feriy; Graves of seven of his followers, and relics therefrom. 

A. D. Bryant, Washington, D. C. 

31. Relics. From Kennedy farmhouse at West Virginia, which was the 

head(iuarters of John Brown Same. 

32. Facsimile of last written by John Brown Same. 

33. GarfieUl Memorial Tablet, framed Charles H. Stelsbins. 

34. Washington, Lincoln and Grant. Medallion Portraits. 

George Sheldon. 

35. "Daily Citizen." J. M. Swords, Proprietor, Vicksburg, Miss., July 2, 

1863. Printed on wall paper. (Issued July 4, by order of Gen- 
eral Grant, with an explanatory note.) 

Dea. Phinelias Fiekl, Charlemont. 

36. John C. Fremont, 1856 George Sheldon. 

37. Soldiers' Memorial. Co. F, 34th Mass. Vol. Mustered in July 31, 1862. 

Descriptive List. 

38. Playbill, Ford's Theatre, the night of Lincoln's Assassination. 

Dr. Royal W. Amidon, New York. City. 

39. Badge. Worn at Lincoln's obsequies. 

Miss C. Alice Baker, C^ambritlge. 

40. Memorial Tablet Same. 

41. Picture of James Hitchcock, who died at Andersonville Prison, 1864. 

Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

42. Medallion, Daniel Webster Mrs. George A. Arms, Greenfield. 

43. Confederate Bayonet Sheath. From Shiloh Battlefield, picked up by 

S. R. Drury of Troy, N. Y., of the Sanitary Commission. 

Mrs. John F. Moors, Greenfield. 

44. Bayonet. Old style. Dug up at Bloody Brook George Reynolds. 

45. Holsters James R. Long, Greenfield. 

46. " containing cartridge boxes David Bryant. 

47. Picture of William Field. Born in Deerfield, Oct. 27, 1800; living 

June 17, 1886, the oldest meml)(>r of the G. A. R. 



MILITARY ROOM 143 

50. Powder Horn of Moses Nelson of Buckland. A soldier of 1.S12. 

William (). Taylor, Shellmrne. 

51. United States Canteen, 1861-65 Same. 

52. Canteen. Carried by Wesley J. Rogers, Co. E, 23d North Carolina 

Regiment. Killed at Fort Stedman, Mareh 25, 1865. 

Dea. Pliinelias Field, Charlemont. 

53. Canteen. Owned by J. C. Peters, Co. F, 49tli Ala., at Port Hudson. 

Bought of him by the donor, after the surrender, July 8, 1863. 

John Barnard. 

54. Rebel Tin Canteen. From Morris Island, S. C. , marked "A. L. Byers." 

John L. Wells, New York City. 

55. Cartridge Box Albert Smith, Gill. 

56. " " Same history as No. 52. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 
57. 
58. 

59. " " Carried by Moses Nelson of Buckland. War of 1812. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

60. " " Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

62. Canteen. War of 1812 George Sheldon. 

63. " Marked "W. M.," reverse "R. T." 1812. 

66. " Used by Benjamin Carter of Buckland, in 1812. 

Mrs. Ashton Carter, Charlemont. 

67. Epaulettes. 

68. Epaulettes of Capt. Henry K. Hoyt of the Franklin Cadets, 1825. 

Mrs. Heniy K. Hoyt. 

69. Knapsack. Same history as No. 59. . . .William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

70. Gourd. Used by the donor for his rations when he was at the front, 

as a member of the U. S. Christian Commission. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

71. Clam-shell Spoon. Used same as above Same, 

72. Powder Horn. 

73. " " Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

75. Photograph of "Old Abe," the Wisconsin War Eagle. 

Miss C. Alice Baker, Cambridge. 

76. Quill from "Old Abe." (See printed slip attached.) 

Maj. Orrin Field, Cornwall, Vt. 

77. Table with two drawers, for storing relics Samuel Willard. 

80. Unfinished Gun Barrel. Made at Deerfield by John P. Bull about 

1750-60 Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelburne. 

81. "Kit " Carson. Photograph L. Foster Morse, Boston. 

82. Bomb Shell. 

83. Two Cannon Balls Frank W. Stebbins. 

84. Cannon Ball John Sheldon, Greenfield. 

85. " " Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

86. " " Brought home from Boston, in the War of 1812, in his 
knapsack, by Ephraim Lanfair James A. Hawks. 



144 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

87. Match Rope, 1830. From old Plaiiifield (luii Houkc, used for ftniij; 
cannon. Mass. Militia Horatio Sliaw, Plainfield. 

90. Photoo;raph of Grave of John Brown, at North Elba, N. Y. 

Mrs. tleorge J. Fiske, Boston. 

91. Picture of John Brown. 

92. Picture of John Brown's House. 

93. Philo Temple's Historic Drum. Used by him at the first meeting of 

the Franklin Cadets, in 1824, and at their final meeting in 1873, 
having never missed a roll call. 

Mrs. Eunice Hartley and Miss Frances Temple. 

94. Drumsticks belonging to same Same. 

95. Sword. Captured at the taking of New Orleans by Admiral Farragut, 

April 24, 1862. Presented by 

Rear Admiral Francis J. Higginison, U. S. N. 
90. Lintaka or Cannon. Bought by the donor from a More datto at Iligan, 
the capital of the District of Lanao, Moro Province, P. I., in 1905. 
"This," says the donor, who has lived three years in Manila, "is the 
only firearm made by the Moros, and few of them have any other. 
The datto assin-ed me that this Lintaka had seen service." Weapons 
of this kind were used in the defense of Mt. Dajo shortly before. 

Ernest N. Stevens, Bridgton, Me. 

97. Kris or Sword. Bought at same time and place as No. 96. The "Moro 

sword which they always cany, and which, unlike the bolo of the 
Filipinos, is used only in fighting. It is carried over the shoulder, 
and the blow is usually struck without the delay of drawing the 
blade from the scabbard (No. 98). The Kris severs the bejuco 
thong which binds the two sides of the scabbard together and frees 
itself. " Same. 

98. Scabbard of Kris Same. 

Case A. 

1. Exploded Shell Doa. Phinehas Field, Charlcmont. 

2. Knife. Carried in War of tlie Rebellion. 

John Shehan, Greenfield. 

3. Time Fuse Shell Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

4. Army Hardtack. Used in Civil War Mrs. E. G. Patrick. 

5. Asbestos. From battlefield Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

6. Relics. From battlefields in Virginia Same. 

7. Percussion Cap Case Same. 

8. Bullet and l^uckshot Mould. 

9. Part of a Gun Barrel. Found by the donor in tlie ruins of Fort Sump- 

ter, 1879 Mrs. Elizabeth W. Champney. 

10. U. S. Soldier's Belt Buckle. Found in 1872, Grand Junction, Miss. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

11. Pair of Pistols. Carried by Capt. John J. Graves, Adjutant of the 

Regt., Massachusetts Militia. Presented by his daughter at his 

request Miss Emily C. Graves, Greenfield. 



MILITARY ROOM 145 

12. Cap Box for waist belt. War of the Rebellion. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

13. A Collection of Hymns. Taken from the effects of a rebel soldier, 

who fell at the Battle of Fort Stedman. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

14. Hardtack. Brought from Culpepper County, Va., 1864. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

15. Bullets. From Gettysburg Battlefield. 

Rev. P. Voorliees Finch, Greenfield. 

16. Bullets. From .\ntietam Battlefield Same. 

17. Hand Grenade Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

18. Gim Lock. Dug up in a swamp west of the house of Albert A. Ball, 

Deerfield, 1874 Seth Howland, Greenfield. 

19. Gun Lock. Dug up on Smead's Island. 

Charles D. Lyons, Greenfield. 

20. " " Capt. Eliakim Arms.* 

21. " " Henry Wells, Shelburne. 

22. 

24. Old Fhnt-lock Pistol, 3-inch barrel WilHam N. Nims, Greenfield. 

25. Brass Powder Flask, 1840. 

26. Piece of Rebel Underground Telegraph Wire. Found near Alexandria 

by Cooper K. Sloan, 11th Penn. Cav. 

Miss Abbie C. Sloan, Marion, Ohio. 

27. Letters. From Port Hudson Post Office, Miss. Found at the time of 

the surrender, July 4, 1863, by the donor. 

Chaplain John F. Moors, Greenfield. 

28. Clay. From tunnel under forts at Petersburg, Va. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

29. Hardtack. Brought home from Fort Hudson by the 52d Mass. Regt. 

Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

30. Bullets. From Fort Negley, Nashville, Tenn. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

31. Piece of the "Dead Line", Anderson ville Prison for Northern 

Soldiers. From a veteran of the Civil W^r. 

M. H. Bardwell, Hinsdale, N. H. 

32. Shot Pouch of James C. Hitchcock Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

33. Grape Shot. Picked up at the recapture of Fort Stedman, Civil War. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

34. Bullet. From Waterloo Battlefield, 1815. 

Miss Mary W. Lincoln, Boston. 

35. Military Buttons. Taken from Federal and Confederate uniforms. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

36. Exploded Shell Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

37. Fragment of a Shell. From Fort Jackson, after the capture of New 

Orleans, April, 1862 John L. Wells. New York City. 

38. Cartridges. From Petersburg, Va Albert Smith, Gill. 

39. Confederate Hand-made Comb Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 



146 CATALOGUE OF RELICS IN MEMORIAL HALL 

40. Gunfiints Joseph Bedortha, Agawam. 

41. Ammunition. From Virginia battlefields. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

42. Cartridge and Company Badge, Co. G, 38th Regt. Mass. Vol., 1862. 

Charles V. Lanman. 

43. Confederate Company Flag. Taken at Petersburg. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

44. Glue Bag. From battlefield Same. 

47—50 are Mementos from Fort Pulaski, Savannah, brought away in 

1862 by Mary O. Jenks Mrs. Hannah B. Jenks. 

47. Fragment of Brick. From a breach in the wall of Fort Pulaski. 

48. Piece of Telegraph Wire. 

49. Piece of Rebel Storm Flag. 

50. Grain of Cannon Powder. 

51. Sea Shell. Taken by Miss Mary O. Jenks from Martello Tower, Tybee 

Island, built by the French in 1665 Same. 

53. Relic of the capture of Port Hudson. Brought home by John Barnard, 

52d Regt. Mass. Vol Mrs. Adeline M. Barnard. 

54. Railroad Ticket — Ljmchburg to Appomattox. Civil War. 

Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

55. Splinter from a Gun Carriage at Port Royal, S. C, Nov., 1861. 

John L. Wells, New York City. 

56. Photographs and pen copies of papers found on the assassin, Louis H. 

Payne, who attempted Secretary Seward's life, April 20, 1865. 

William T. Barnard, M. D., Baltimore, Md. 

57. Piece of Shell. From battlefield. . . .Dea. Phinehas Field, Charlemont. 

60. Fragment of Shell .Same. 

61. Percussion Shell Same. 

62. Rifle Shell Same. 

63. Percussion Shell Same. 

64. Fuse Tube of Shell Same. 

65. Cape. Made with her own hands from the raw material, by a " Poor 

White" woman of the south, whose husband was hung for being a 
Union man, during the War of the Rebellion. 

Mrs. Christopher A. Stebbins. 

66. Photograph of James K. Stebbins and part of Battlefield of Antietam. 

James K. Stebbins, Ashtabula, Ohio. 

67. Powder. Carried at the Battle of Lexington. 

Benjamin F. Severance, Shelburne. 

68. Picture and Badge of John W. Stebbins, Dept. Com. of Virginia and 

North Carolina G. A. R., 1897. . . .John W. Stebbins, Norfolk, Va. 

69. Bullet. Picked up on Lookout Mountain. 

J. S. Richardson, Montague. 

70. Shrapnel Shot. Picked up on Gettysburg Battlefield by Elijah Cole- 

man of Philadelphia Mrs. Noah S. Wells, Greenfield. 

71. Card Photographs of Officers in the Civil War, and a few views con- 

nected therewith. 



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72. Button. From the coat of Albert Smith, a soldier in the Civil War. 

Mrs. J. M. Arms Sheldon. 

73. Gun Flints. 1830 George Sheldon. 

74. Confederate Cartridge Miss Emily Potter, Greenfield. 

75. Lint. Made by the women of Deerfield for wounded soldiers of the 

Civil War (1861-65). Owing to the adoption of new methods by 
surgeons the use of hnt was discontinued George Sheldon. 

76. Horn for Rifle Powder. Belonged to Dexter Marsh of Greenfield. 

George E. Marsh. Georgetown, Colo. 

Case B. 

1. Uniform Coat of an officer in the Franklin Cadets. Worn by Charles 

Jones, 1845 Miss Mary Toombs. 

2. Cap of same imiform Same. 

3. Fatigue Cap of same Same. 

4. Plume. Worn by an officer of the Franklin Cadets. 

George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 



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1. Picture of South Deerfield in 1850. 

Mrs. Katherine K. Cowing, Brattleboro, Vt. 
3. Secretary from Old Indian House. Used by Col. Elihu Hoyt, 1771- 
1833, and Capt. Henry King Hoyt, 1810-63. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

5. Mahogany Desk. Old, but of unknown age. 

Mrs. Stephen Higginson, Brookline. 

6. Framed Picture of the Pocumtuck Hotel, Deerfield. Built 1856. 

Burned 1877 Benjamin F. Popkins, Greenfield. 

8. Panel. From old Burk Tavern, Bernardston. Boston Harbor — 

painted about 1812, by a guest who was afterward arrested as a 
British spy Frizzell Brothers, Bernardston. 

9. Conch Shell Horn. For calling farm hands to dinner. 

Miss Fanny H, Wilson. 

10. Door Handle and Escutcheon. From the house of Oliver Wendell 

Holmes, Beacon street, Boston Dr. Jolm Dixwell, Boston. 

11. Engraving. The Rabbit on the Wall John D. Pierce, Greenfield. 

12. Large, Univalve Shell. From the cabinet of Dexter Marsh. 

George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 
18. Battle of Bunker Hill, by Trumbull Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

20. Oil Painting. The Seven Maccabees, Apocrypha. Mace. VII, i. 

Mrs. C. M. Allen, Houston, Tex. Through Mrs. Lucretia W. Eels. 

21. Oil Painting. Slaughter of the Innocents Same. 

These two paintings, imdoubtedly of the old Spanish School, were 

brought from Mexico by the donor, whose husband was for some 
years U. S. Consul in a Mexican port. They were taken from an 
ancient Mission, near the city of Mexico. 
27. High Case of Drawers. Belonging to Mary Stratton of Northfield in 
1744, the grandmother of the donor Mrs. Mary Ann Wright. 

29. Marshall Ney. As he appeared two hours after death. Steel, 14x19 

inches, London, 1821 Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 

30. The Court of Death. From painting by Rembrandt Peale, framed. 

Mrs. Laura W. Wilkinson, Chicago. 

35. Hall Clock. Belonged to Nims family Mrs. Eunice K. Brown. 

36. Signing the Declaration of Independence, framed. 

Mrs. Laura W. Wilkinson, Chicago. 



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37. Panel of Twelve Rare Prints. Engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar, bom 
in Prague, 1607; died in England, 1660. Much sought for by col- 
lectors Heirs of Wendell T. Davis, Greenfield. 

49. Unique Covered Rattan Basket. With strong cords woven in around 

the top. Use unknow^l George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

50. Chair Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

51. " Three-slat back Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

52. " With four perpendicular slats and basket bottom. 

Mrs. Esther Dickinson. 

53^ " Alfred Cobb. 

54. " of Caroline Sheldon, mothc of the donor George Sheldon. 

60. Red Rocking Chair. 

61. Rocking Chair. Belonged to the family of David Wells, 1774-1845. 

Mrs. Thomas Kennedy. 

62. " " From house of Thomas Wells, 1770-1845. 

George Sheldon. 

63. Roimd Dining Table, 1770. From the Old Indian House. 

Mrs. Catherine W. Hoyt. 



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1. Map of Massachusetts, 1836, by Osgood Carleton. 

2. " " the United States. 

3. " " Greenfield. New York, 1852 Alfred Cobb. 

4. Clock. A relic from the Old Comer Store George Sheldon. 

5. Map of the State of Maine, 1820 Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

6. Square Dining Table. Made by Justin Hitchcock, 1752-1822. 

Mrs. Eunice K. Huntington, Cleveland, Ohio. 

7. Relics of Chicago Fire Mrs. Laura W. Wilkinson, Chicago. 

8. Whipping Post. Said by donors to have been used in the schoolhouse, 

built in Simderland in 1791. 

W. F. Campbell and Jesse L. Delano, Sunderland. 

9. Moulding. From the house of Rev. Jonathan Ashley, built in 1732. 

Jonathan Ashley. 

10. Door of Old Smead House. One of the earhest Deerfield houses. (See 

label.) Slocimi Brothers. 

11. Specimens of the framework of the same house Same. 

12. Deer's Head and Horns Francis M. Thompson, Greenfield. 

13. Map of the United States by Samuel Lewis, Philadelphia, 1816. 

14. Candlestand. Belonged to Miss Lucy Carter, mother of the donor. 

Mrs. Julia E. Robbins, Shelbume. 

15. Small Leather Trunk. 

16. Section of Old Indian House Ehn, 1905 Mrs. Laura B. Wells. 

18. Small Door. From the house built for the Rev. John Williams by the 

town in 1707 Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

19. Window Frame of a House. Built about 1794, by Samuel Pierce of 

Greenfield Major H. Tyler, Greenfield. 

21. Map of the Union and Adjacent Islands and Coimtries, by Johnson 

and Brooming, N. Y., 1859. 

22. Rare Map of the District of Maine, when it was a part of Massachusetts. 

Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

23. Bricks. Taken from the Hearthstone in Memorial Hall, built in 1798; 

taken out 1903. 

24. Riven Clapboards and Laths, used 1760. (See label.) 

Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

25. Shale with fossil tracks Charles M. WiUiams, Turners Falls. 

26. Iron-handled Warming Pan. Rare. Brought from Ireland by an- 

cestors of the donor James Crosby, Greenfield. 

27. Old Fork. From Burk Fort at Bemardston. (See label attached.) 



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28. Red Sandstone Grindstone. Found in a "brook hole" on the farm of 

Valorus .Andrews, Wisdom. Probably made in the old Hoyt quarry, 
open about 1750-1823 F. Herbert Andrews. 

29. Piece of a stick of timber from a storehouse at Cheapside, built in 

Pod Auger times Major H. Tyler, Greenfield. 

30. Photograph of an Indian Deed from Mashshalisk, 1672. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. 

31. Picture. General Putnam's Test of Courage. 

Est. Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

32. Mattock. Found on the site of old Fort Lucas, Colrain, opposite 

residence of R. W. Snow Birmi W. Snow, Colrain. 

33. A Pair of Nondescripts resembling coat-hangers. 

George E. Marsh, Georgetown, Colo. 

34. Horn of a Black-tailed Deer. Given to David S. Hoyt while on his 

trip with the surveying party on the Northern Pacific Railroad. 

William H. Bartlett, Peoria, Ariz. 

35. Timber. From Fort Lucas, Colrain, built 1744. Given, 1898, by 

Amos Stewart, Colrain. 

36. '' Plan of Fort William Henry after Cap. Nath'l Dwight's dimensions." 

George Sheldon. 

37. Plan of Fort Dummer Same. 

38. Picture of Old Fort Erie Nathaniel Hitchcock. 

39. Triumph of Innocence Same. 

40. Brick. From the house of Daniel Nash, Jr., born 1713, one of the 

earliest houses built in the Greenfield Meadows. 

Jonathan E. Nash, Greenfield. 
4L Panel. From front door of Old Taylor Fort at East Charlemont, 1754. 

William O. Taylor, Shelburne. 

42. Specimen of the wall of the Fort of Capt. John Burk, Bernardston, 

built during the French and Indian Wars, about 1744. 

Samuel Connable, Bernardston. 

43. Junkins Garrison House at York, Me. Built about 1675. Photo- 

graphed by Emma L. Coleman in 1882. Framed from panel mould- 
ing on one of the doors Miss Emma L. Coleman, Boston. 

44. Map of Franklin County, 1858, by H. F. Walling, N. Y. 

45. Piece of door of Fort Sawtelle, Vernon, Vt., built in 1740 by Josiah 

Sawtelle, father of Mrs. Jemima Howe Jolin Howe. 

46. Part of a Gate Post in the Meadow fence which stood at the north 

end of the "Street," on the road leading to the Meadows imtil 
1856 Charles Jones. 

47. Stone. From Turners Falls. Showing petrified root. Blasted from 

a ledge in the garden of the donor, about 1875. 

S. M. Stebbins, Riverside. 

60. Small Franklin Stove Morris J. Powers, Whately. 

61. Small Andirons Col. Thomas W. Ripley, Greenfield. 

62. Small Shovel and Tongs. 

63. Franklin Stove L. W. Bigelow, Simsburj', Conn. 



152 cat.UjOgue of relics in memorial hall 

64. Andirons Miss Fanny H. Wilson. 

66. Small Tongs. 

68. Shovel and Tongs with Standard Emily Thayer, Greenfield. 

70. Stove. Used in the Brick Meetinghouse about 1840. 

"Little Marj-" Hawks. 

72. Rotary Cook Stove. In use 1835. .Ethelbert Dickinson, Sunderland. 

74. Powdering Tub or Pork Barrel. (See label.) 

Hon. O. S. Howard, Townshend, Vt. 

75. Double Travehng Basket Mrs. Marian C. Stebbins. 

76. Hatchel for Broom Corn Mrs. Evmice K. Brown. 

77. Machine for Making Brooms. Used bj^ donor Albert Smith, Gill. 

78. Broom Tyer's Bench Same. 

79. Machine for Sewing Brooms Same. 

80. Broom Needle Same. 

81. Broom Pounder Same. 

82. Broom Wire Roller Mrs. Charles Jones. 

83. Broom Needle Jonathan Johnson, Greenfield. 

90. Two Wooden Chairs, round-topped, about 1810. .Mrs. C. E. B. Allen. 

91. Bullet. From site of the Jonathan Wells Fort, successfully defended 

Feb. 29, 1704 George Sheldon. 

92. Bullets. Foimd on Fort Hill, the site of a Pocumtuck Indian Fort. 

David Sheldon. 

93. Bullets. From site of Fort Dummer George Sheldon. 

94. Nails. From the Junkins Garrison House, York, Me. Built before 

1675 Same. 

95. Relic. From the Junkins Garrison House .-. . . .Same. 

96. " From Fort William Henry, Lake George. 

97. Wood. From the wall of Fort Shirley Orzemus Maxwell, Heath. 

98. End of Dowel Pin. From Fort Shirley in Heath. Built in 1744 . . Same. 

99. Wooden Drinking Bottle, of cedar. Made by Benjamin Munn from 

remains of the old stockade used in fortifying Deerfield in 1704, for 
Gideon Dickinson of Whately Dennis Dickinson, Whately. 




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